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n. Mythology A staff tipped with a pine cone and twined with ivy, carried by Dionysus, Dionysian revelers, and satyrs.

n. Botany A thyrse.

n. A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.

n. A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

n. A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.

n. A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

n. One of the most common attributes or emblems of Dionysus (Bacchus) and his thiasus and vo taries.

n. Same as thyrse, 2.

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

"The thyrsus was a long staff, carried by Bacchus, and by the Satyrs and Bacchanalians engaged in the worship of the God of the grape."

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