Thyrsus Definition

thûrsəs
thyrsi
noun
A staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes entwined with ivy or vine leaves, which Dionysus, the satyrs, etc. were represented as carrying.
Webster's New World
A flower cluster in which the main stem is racemose and the secondary stems are cymose, as in the lilac.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Thyrsus

Noun

Singular:
thyrsus
Plural:
thyrsi

Origin of Thyrsus

  • From Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thursos).

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin from Greek thursos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Thyrsus Sentence Examples

  • The usual attributes of Silenus were the wine-skin (from which he is inseparable), a crown of ivy, the Bacchic thyrsus, the ass, and sometimes the panther.

  • The tufted head or umbel is likened by Pliny to a thyrsus.

  • His personal attributes are an ivy wreath, the thyrsus (a staff with pine cone at the end), the laurel, the pine, a drinking cup, and sometimes the horn of a bull on his forehead.

  • In the privet (Ligustrum vulgare) there are numerous racemes of dichasia arranged in a racemose manner along an axis; the whole inflorescence thus has an appearance not unlike a bunch of grapes, and has been called a thyrsus.

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