parietary
English
editEtymology
editLatin parietaria (“the herb pellitory (noun)”), from parietarius (“of or belonging to a wall (adjective)”). Compare pellitory, parietal.
Noun
editparietary (plural parietaries)
- (botany) Any of several species of Parietaria.
Adjective
editparietary (not comparable)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)