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Thyrsus

//ˈθɜɹsəs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.

    "1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poet's Calendar In my hand I bear / The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine."

  2. 2
    a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose wordnet
  3. 3
    A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrse, torse, and torso.

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