parnassus : Idioms & Phrases

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fringed grass of parnassus

  • noun 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
    Parnassia fimbriata.
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Grass of Parnassus

  • . (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia.
Webster 1913

grass-of-parnassus

  • noun any of various usually evergreen bog plants of the genus Parnassia having broad smooth basal leaves and a single pale flower resembling a buttercup
    parnassia.
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mount parnassus

  • noun (Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry
    Liakoura; Parnassus.
    • Liakoura is the modern name of Mount Parnassus
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To climb Parnassus

  • to write poetry. Colloq.
Webster 1913