parietal

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: pa=ri=e=tal

CIDE DICTIONARY

parietal, a. [L. parietalis, fr. paries, -ietis, a wall: cf. F. pariétal. Cf. Parietary, Pellitory.].

•  Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.  [1913 Webster]
•  Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.  [1913 Webster]

  "At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee."  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to the parietes.  [1913 Webster]
•  Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.  [1913 Webster]

parietal, n. 

•  One of the parietal bones.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

parietal, adj.
1 Anat. of the wall of the body or any of its cavities.
2 Bot. of the wall of a hollow structure etc.
3 US relating to residence within a college.

Idiom

parietal bone either of a pair of bones forming the central part of the sides and top of the skull.

Etymology

F pari{eacute}tal or LL parietalis f. L paries -etis wall

ROGET THESAURUS

parietal

Laterality

N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.