parietary

English

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Etymology

Latin parietaria (“the herb pellitory (noun)”), from parietarius (“of or belong to a wall (adj)”). Compare pellitory, parietal.

Noun

parietary (plural parietaries)

  1. (botany) Any of several species of Parietaria.

Adjective

parietary (not comparable)

  1. parietal

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for parietary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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