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GRASS-OF-PARNASSUS

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Meaning:

Any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup

Synonyms:

grass-of-Parnassus; parnassia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("grass-of-Parnassus" is a kind of...):

bog plant; marsh plant; swamp plant (a semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grass-of-Parnassus"):

bog star; Parnassia palustris (plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green)

Holonyms ("grass-of-Parnassus" is a member of...):

genus Parnassia (genus of bog herbs of Arctic and northern temperate regions)

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