Definition of Parietaria

1. Noun. Small genus of stingless herbs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Parietaria

Pareto-efficient
Pareto-improvement
Pareto-improvements
Pareto-optimal
Pareto distribution
Pareto efficient
Pareto improvement
Pareto improvements
Pareto optimal
Pareto principle
Parga
Parian
Parians
Paridae
Parietales
Parietaria (current term)
Parietaria difussa
Parinaud
Parinaud's conjunctivitis
Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome
Parinaud's ophthalmoplegia
Parinaud's syndrome
Parioli
Paris
Paris-Brest
Paris University
Paris daisy
Paris green
Paris line
Paris quadrifolia

Literary usage of Parietaria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Parietaria officinali* with completely protogynous flou-ere. * Single flowers of Parietaria with mature brush-shaped stigma and closed coiled-up stamens. ..."

2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"Thus in the list before us we have parietaria and parietaria ... parget, parietaria, parie- taria officinalis, paris, paris quadrifolia, parmesan, parsley, ..."

3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"WALL-PELLITORY, the common name of the Parietaria officinalis, a plant belonging to the natural order ... The genus Parietaria is known by possessing a ..."

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