Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun parnassia

1 sense of parnassia

Sense 1
parnassia, grass-of-Parnassus -- (any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup)
       => marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant -- (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)