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thyrse
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (thúrsos) via Latin thyrsus and French thyrse. Doublet of thyrsus and torso.
Noun
thyrse (plural thyrses)
- (botany) A type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes.
- 1804, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, page 143,
- The Thyrsus *, or Thyrse, is a mode of inflorescence very nearly allied to the panicle, being, in fact, a panicle contracted into an ovate, or egg-shaped form. In the thyrse, the middle footstalks, which are longer, extend horizontally, whilst the upper and lower oes are shorter, and rise up vertically.
- 1840, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Boughton Kingdon (translator), Vegetable Organography, Volume II, page 24,
- The example of the thyrse of Eugenia leads us to understand several inflorescences which resemble also racemes or panicles; such are the thyrses of the Lilac.
- 1998, D. W. Stevenson, M. Colella, B. Boom, Rapateaceae, Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber (editors), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume IV: Flowering Plants, Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae), page 417,
- The number of spikelets is variable, and some genera have thyrses with 70 spikelets (Saxofridericia, Spathanthus) or only 1-3 spikelets per inflorescence (Stegolepsis, Monotrema).
- 1804, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, page 143,
- (archaic) A thyrsus (staff with conical ornament).
Derived terms
- thyrsic
- thyrsiform
- thyrsoid
Translations
Anagrams
- ethyrs
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin thyrsus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????? (thúrsos). Doublet of torse, a borrowing from Italian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?s/
Noun
thyrse m (plural thyrses)
- thyrsus
- thyrse
Descendants
- ? English: thyrse (also via Latin)
Further reading
- “thyrse” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Noun
thyrse
- vocative singular of thyrsus
thyrse From the web:
thurse
English
Alternative forms
- thrush, thrust (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English þurs, thurse, thursse, thyrce, thurs, thirs, from Old English þyrs (“giant, enchanter, demon, wizard”), from Proto-Germanic *þurisaz, *þursaz, *þursiz (“giant, name of the Þ-rune”), from Proto-Indo-European *tur-, *twer- (“to rotate, twirl, swirl, move”). Cognate with German Turse (“giant”), Danish tosse (“a fool, buffoon”), Norwegian tuss, tusse, tust (“goblin, kobold, elf, a dull fellow”), Icelandic þurs (“giant”).
Noun
thurse (plural thurses)
- (now chiefly dialectal) A giant; a gigantic spectre; an apparition.
Anagrams
- Hestur, sherut, suther
Middle English
Noun
thurse
- Alternative form of þurs
thurse From the web:
- what does thurs mean
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