(n) bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico, Syn. Parnassia fimbriata
a. [ L. fimbriatus fibrous, fringed, fr. fimbria fiber, fringe. See Fringe. ] Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube. [ 1913 Webster ]