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Definition of 'thyrsus'English
Noun
( thyrsi)
A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
* Longfellow
- In my hand I bear / The thyrsus , tipped with fragrant cones of pine.
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- As good to grow on graves / As twist about a thyrsus .
* 1968 , Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside
- The champagne was done, and she upturned the bottle to hold it like a thyrsus .
(botany) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
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