Associations to the word «Thyrsus»

Wiktionary

THYRSUS, noun. A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
THYRSUS, noun. (botany) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

Dictionary definition

THYRSUS, noun. A dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose.

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
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