At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls
constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal
Committee.
B. H. Hall (1856).
3. (Anat.) (a) Of pertaining to the parietes. (b) Of, pertaining to, or
in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle
part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.
4. (Bot.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis;
-- said of a placenta.
Pa*ri"e*tal, n. 1. (Anat.) One of the parietal bones.
2. (Zoˆl.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of
the head in certain reptiles and fishes.
Pa*ri"e*ta*ry (?), a. See Parietal, 2.
Pa*ri"e*ta*ry, n. [L. parietaria, fr. parietarius parietal. Cf.
Pellitory, Parietal.] (Bot.) Any one of several species of Parietaria.
See 1st Pellitory.
||Pa*ri"e*tes (?), n. pl. [L. paries a wall.]
1. (Anat.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal
parietes; the parietes of the cranium.