Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Parietes"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Paries \Pa"ri*es\, n.; pl. {Parietes}. [See {Parietes}.]
(Zo["o]l.)
The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a
barnacle.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Parietes \Pa*ri"e*tes\, n. pl. [L. paries a wall.]
1. (Anat.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the
abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
2. (Bot.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.
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