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Thyrsus

noun
(pl. thyrsi)
1.
A dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose.  Synonym: thyrse.





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... square, massive head, who had joined the party in the Louvre, ran forward and moved it round slightly. She was in Greek dress, and some yards away from her was the clay study—a maenad with vine wreath, tambourine, thyrsus, and floating hair—for ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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