parnassian

• ⇰ Of or pertaining to Parnassus.

• ⇰ Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus <gen>Parnassius</gen>. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America.
• ⇰ 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 (<etsep>Parnasse contemporain</etsep>) of the volume in which their first poems were