| a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to Parnassus. |
| n. | 1. | (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America. |
| 1. | One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made little use of emotion as poetic material; - so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866. |