Thyrse

Word THYRSE
Character 6
Hyphenation thyrse
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What do we mean by thyrse?

A branching flower cluster, as of a lilac, in which the central axis is indeterminate and the lateral branches are determinate cymes. noun

Same as thyrsus, 1. noun

In botany, a contracted or ovate panicle, being a mixed or compound form of inflorescence in which the primary ramification is centripetal and the secondary or ultimate is centrifugal. noun

A small earthenware vessel, of a form resembling that of a pine-cone, especially such a vessel of ancient make. noun

A thyrsus. noun

A type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes noun

A thyrsus noun

A dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose noun

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The word "thyrse" in example sentences

The Old English word ‘thyrse’ or ‘thurse’ is obsolete in modern English but occasionally appears in place names, e.g. ❋ Carla (2010)

Michael Alexander translates ‘thyrse’ as ‘troll’ in Beowulf for the alliteration – “a trial against this troll”. ❋ Carla (2010)

Grendel is referred to once in Beowulf as ‘thyrse’, line 426. ❋ Carla (2010)

It presumably influenced word choice in the original, since the poet uses a variety of words e.g. eoten, thyrse to refer to Grendel, so they were presumably sufficiently close in meaning to do duty for each other as the metre dictated. ❋ Carla (2010)

Myrct er uti, mal qvedth ec ocr fara uerig fioell yfir thyrse a thioed yfir badthir vidth komonc, edtha badthir tecr sa inn amatki ioetunn. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Cassia with a thyrse of showy yellow blossoms, which he said he had plucked from a shrub about fifteen feet high. ❋ Ludwig Leichhardt (1830)

When up the thyrse [C] is rais'd, and when the sound ❋ Robert Herrick (1632)

I could use ‘thyrse’ or a modernised version thereof, but that’s no more easily recognisable than ‘eoten’. ❋ Carla (2010)

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