thyrse
Americannoun
noun
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A dense inflorescence in which the side branches end in cymes, as in the lilac.
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Also called thyrsus
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See more at inflorescence
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Etymology
Origin of thyrse
1595–1605; < French < Latin thyrsus thyrsus
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Flowers in a compound thyrse, very fragrant; pedicels mostly umbellate-clustered.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Charley brought me a branch of a Cassia with a thyrse of showy yellow blossoms, which he said he had plucked from a shrub about fifteen feet high.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
Flowers.—White; in a thyrse a foot long; many of them imperfect.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Flowers in a terminal thyrse or dense panicle, often polygamous, most of them with imperfect pistils and sterile; pedicels jointed.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Cinereous-puberulent, 2° high; leaves oval and oblong, mostly obtuse at both ends; thyrse rather loose; involucre broad.—S. Kan. and southward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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