parnassia

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parnassia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Parnassia \Par*nas"si*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
     A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white
     flowers; grass of Parnassus.
     [1913 Webster]

parnassia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  parnassia
      n 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 [syn: parnassia,
           grass-of-Parnassus]