thyrsus

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈθɜːsəs/    美 /ˈθɜɹsəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
    — 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poet's Calendar In my hand I bear / The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine.
  2. A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

词形变化

thyrsi plural

词汇关系

衍生词
thyrsiform thyrsoid

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrse, torse, and torso.
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