- (a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.
- (a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.
- (a.) 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.
- (n.) One of the special scales or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.
- (n.) One of the parietal bones.
- (a.) Of pertaining to the parietes.
- (a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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