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Webster 1913 Edition


Thyrse

Thyrse

(thẽrs)
,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
thyrse
.]
A thyrsus.

Webster 1828 Edition


Thyrse

THYRSE

,
Noun.
[L. thyrsus.] In botany, a species of inflorescence; a panicle contracted into an ovate form, or a dense or close panicle, more or less of an ovate figure, as in the lilac.