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Definition of: thyrsus
(thûr′səs) noun plural ·si (-sī)
1. A staff wreathed in ivy and crowned with a pine cone or a bunch of ivy leaves with grapes or berries: an attribute of Dionysus and the satyrs.
2. Bot. A branched panicle in which the middle branches are longer than those above or below them, as in the lilac and grape. [<L <Gk. thyrsos]
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