thyrsoid

American  

[thur-soid] / ˈθɜr sɔɪd /

Or thyrsoidal

adjective

Botany.

1. having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.

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Etymology

Origin of thyrsoid

First recorded in 1820–30, thyrsoid is from the Greek word thyrsoeidḗs thyrsuslike. See thyrsus, -oid

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thyrsoid

A handsome, stout species, 4 feet high, with large, pinnate, bright green leaves, and small, white, sweetly-scented flowers produced in thyrsoid panicles.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

A pretty evergreen species, with oval leaves, and terminal, thyrsoid panicles of white flowers.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

Rays mostly short, white or pale bluish-purple.—Var. thyrsoídeus, Gray, with ovate-oblong to lanceolate leaves, the branches ascending and often short, and the thyrsoid or spicate-glomerate heads less secund.

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

Flowers white in spicate, thyrsoid racemes, and produced rather sparsely.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

Seashore 13 Panicle virgate or thyrsoid; leaves nearly entire 14–17 Heads very small in a short broad panicle; leaves nearly entire 18–20 Heads racemosely paniculate; leaves ample, the lower serrate 21–28 § 1.

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