GENUS PARNASSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Parnassia mean? 

• GENUS PARNASSIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS PARNASSIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions

  Familiarity information: GENUS PARNASSIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PARNASSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Parnassia" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Parnassia"):

grass-of-Parnassus; parnassia (any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup)

bog star; Parnassia palustris (plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green)

fringed grass of Parnassus; Parnassia fimbriata (bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico)

Holonyms ("genus Parnassia" is a member of...):

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)