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thyrse
[ thurs ]
noun
Botany.
- a compact branching inflorescence, as of the lilac, in which the main axis is indeterminate and the lateral axes are determinate.
thyrse
/ ˈθɜËsÉ™s; θɜËs /
noun
- botany a type of inflorescence, occurring in the lilac and grape, in which the main branch is racemose and the lateral branches cymose
thyrse
/ ³Ù³óû°ù²õ /
- A dense inflorescence in which the side branches end in cymes, as in the lilac.
- Also called thyrsus
- See more at inflorescence
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Derived Forms
- ˈ³Ù³ó²â°ù²õ´Ç¾±»å, adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of thyrse1
C17: from French: thyrsus
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Example Sentences
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Flowers in a terminal thyrse or dense panicle, often polygamous, most of them with imperfect pistils and sterile; pedicels jointed.
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Flowers.—White; in a thyrse a foot long; many of them imperfect.
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The shy bud hesitateth still To show the secret thyrse of white.
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Round about him Bacchus fair Bacchantês, Bearing cymbals, flutes, and thyrses, Wild from Naxian groves, or Zantê's Vineyards, sing delirious verses.
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Charley brought me a branch of a Cassia with a thyrse of showy yellow blossoms, which he said he had plucked from a shrub about fifteen feet high.
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