thyrsus

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 182 words | Copyright

thyrsus pl. thyrsi (Gr. and Rom. antiq.) staff or spear tipped with a pine-cone ornament; (bot.) form of inflorescence. XVIII. — L. — Gr. thúrsos stalk of a plant.

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