Parietal /(?)/

Pa·ri·e·tal

Parietal

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.
  2. Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.
    At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee.
    — B. H. Hall (1856).
  3. Of or pertaining to the parietes. (Anat.)
  4. Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta. (Bot.)

Parietal

n.
  1. One of the parietal bones. (Anat.)
  2. One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes. (Zool.)