Parnassia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  parnassia
       n : 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: {grass-of-Parnassus}]