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GENUS PARNASSIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Parnassia" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Parnassia"):
grass-of-Parnassus; parnassia (any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup)
bog star; Parnassia palustris (plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green)
fringed grass of Parnassus; Parnassia fimbriata (bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico)
Holonyms ("genus Parnassia" is a member of...):
family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)
