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Parietaria

noun

small genus of stingless herbs

• Syn: ↑genus Parietaria

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Urticaceae, ↑family Urticaceae, ↑nettle family

• Member Meronyms: ↑pellitory-of-the-wall, ↑wall pellitory, ↑pellitory, ↑Parietaria difussa

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\\pəˌrīəˈta(a)rēə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Late Latin, pellitory-of-the-wall, from feminine of parietarius of a wall, from Latin pariet-, paries wall + -arius -ary — more at paries

: a small genus of widely distributed stingless herbs (family Urticaceae) with alternate entire leaves and small greenish flowers in the leaf axils — see pellitory 2

Useful english dictionary. 2012.