Did you perchance mean Parnassia?
Examples
“When the stonecrops bloom, parnassian butterflies are on the wing.”
“And there, of course, you can expect to find photogenic parnassius caterpillars or, in season, the beginning of summer, the adult parnassian butterflies.”
“Strobeen’s parnassian butterfly, a redwood subspecies of Parnassius clodius, disappeared 33 years ago from former redwood habitats of the Santa Cruz Mountains. due to the loss of its host plant (Dicentra spp.) from fire and timber management practices.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘parnassian’.
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Myth
augean, bacchanal, cereal, cimmerian, cupidity, cyclopean, mercurial, jovial, hermetic, halcyon, titanic, furious and 105 more...
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2009 Spelling Bee words I actually re...
anodyne, kibbutzim, turgescent, ocarina, hepatomegaly, parnassian, scherzo, mostaccioli, fanfaronade, deprecatory, demesne, ptolemy and 19 more...
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out forms
Sir Francis Bacon: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
chinoiserie, rhyparography, Ludibrium, Tarasque, Trabant, joropo, blocage, crannog, whitsour, zampogna, scamillus, Kacapi and 77 more...
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While Europe Slept/America Alone/Amer...
Words gathered during my recent "current affairs" reading bender.
It's not an addiction, I can quit any time I want.proforma, distaff, senescent, simplisme, arrondissement, brasserie, cynosure, entente, inure, elision, contrariety, calumny and 53 more...
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