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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PARIETES

Pa *ri "e *tes, n. pl. Etym: [L. paries a wall. ]

 

1. (Anat. )

 

Defn: The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.

 

2. (Bot. )

 

Defn: The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.