Definition of "parnassia" []

• Any of the genus Parnassia of herbaceous dicots. (noun)

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• "The heather was in full blow, and in wet parts the ground white with parnassia."
• "Its banks are embossed with moss and grass and sedge well mixed with flowers -- daisies, larkspurs, solidagos, parnassia, potentilla, strawberry, etc. Small strips of meadow occur here and there, and belts of slender arrowy fir and spruce with moss-clad roots grow close to the water's edge."
• "I saw a few plants anchored in the less crumbling parts of the steep-faced bosses and steps -- parnassia, potentilla, hedysarum, lutkea, etc. The lower, rough-looking patches half way up the mountain are mostly alder bushes ten or fifteen feet high."