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Definition of Parietaria
1. Noun. Small genus of stingless herbs.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Urticaceae, Nettle Family, Urticaceae
Member holonyms: Parietaria Difussa, Pellitory, Pellitory-of-the-wall, Wall Pellitory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parietaria
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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