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PARNASSIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parnassia mean?
• PARNASSIA (noun)
The noun PARNASSIA has 1 sense:
1. any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup
Familiarity information: PARNASSIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
grass-of-Parnassus; parnassia
Hypernyms ("parnassia" is a kind of...):
bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parnassia"):
bog star; Parnassia palustris (plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green)
Holonyms ("parnassia" is a member of...):
genus Parnassia (genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions)
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