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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, noun [F. parnassien.] 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, adjective [L. Parnassius.] Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Parnassian \Par*nas"sian\, noun [See {Parnassus}.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus {Parnassius}. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America.
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