Par*nas"sian, n. [See Parnassus.]
(Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies
belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains,
both in the Old World and in America.
Par*nas"sian (?), n. [F.
parnassien.] One of a school of French poets of the Second
Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made the 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.
Par*nas"sian (?), a. [L.
Parnassius.] Of or pertaining to Parnassus.