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thyrse

 (thûrs)
n.
A branching flower cluster, as of a lilac, in which the central axis is indeterminate and the lateral branches are determinate cymes.

[Latin thyrsus, thyrsus; see thyrsus.]
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thyrse

(θɜːs) or

thyrsus

n, pl thyrses or thyrsi (ˈθɜːsaɪ)
(Botany) botany a type of inflorescence, occurring in the lilac and grape, in which the main branch is racemose and the lateral branches cymose
[C17: from French: thyrsus]
ˈthyrsoid, thyrsoidal adj
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thyrse

(θɜrs)

also thyrsus



n.
a compact branching inflorescence, as of the lilac, in which the main axis is indeterminate and the lateral axes are determinate.
[1595–1605; < French < Latin thyrsus thyrsus]
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thyrse

(thûrs)
A dense flower cluster in which the side branches end in cymes, as in the lilac.
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Noun1.thyrse - a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymosethyrse - a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose
flower cluster - an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers
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Thyrsus
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Krysinska adopts the notion of the arabesque from Baudelaire's brief prose poem dedicated to Franz Liszt, "Le Thyrse," to designate a feminine territory of art.
As Dr Evans herself no doubt reflected, she might have used her conclusion as an introduction, not merely because it contains an etat present of criticism on Le Spleen de Paris, which situates and justifies her own work, not merely because it explores some of the ramifications of her sub-title, but because the preceding chapter, devoted to |Le Thyrse' and Baudelaire's intertextual dialogue with Diderot and Sterne, provides a satisfying synthesis of those dualities that Evans has so absorbingly examined during the course of the book: individuality (sauvagerie) and conformity civilization), facetiousness and sententiousness, madness and conventional wisdom.
An extensive analysis of "Le Thyrse" leads to observations on Liszt's and De Quincey's dualities.
The inflorescences (= flowering units) of the Amaranthaceae have been described as a dense head, spike, raceme or panicle, or a loose or spike-like thyrse (Eliasson, 1988; Townsend, 1993).