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parial

parial adjective: belonging to or forming a part of a pair.

Adjective

parial (comparative more parial, superlative most parial)

  1. Belonging to or forming a part of a pair.
    • In the vertebral embryo the first appearance of the parts of the skeleton, in gristle or bone, is a segmental one ; in fishes the muscular system shows much, and in all Vertebrates a little, of the like seo-mental constitution of the trunk : the same idea is suggested by the symmetrical and parial...1866, Owen, Richard, On the anatomy of vertebrates, Longmans, Green
    • The sternum, moreover, consists of two separate bones, which are parial, and were united to each other on the median line apparently by cartilage only.1896, Marsh, Othniel Charles, The dinosaurs of North America, page 168

Forms of parial

comparativemore parial
superlativemost parial

Questions about parial

What does parial mean?
Parial means belonging to or forming a part of a pair.
What part of speech is parial?
Parial is an adjective.

Words near parial in the dictionary

  1. pariahhood
  2. pariahism
  3. pariahlike
  4. pariahs
  5. pariahship
  6. parial
  7. Pariaman
  8. parian
  9. Parian cement
  10. Parians
  11. parianware

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