Definitions for thyrsus

thyrsus thyr·sus

Spelling: [thur-suh s]
IPA: /ˈθɜr səs/

Thyrsus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in thyrsus (hrsstuy).

Definitions for thyrsus

noun

  1. Botany. a thyrse.
  2. Greek Antiquity. a staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes twined with ivy and vine branches, borne by Dionysus and his votaries.

Origin of thyrsus

1585-95; Latin Greek thýrsos Bacchic staff, stem of plant

Examples for thyrsus

The thyrsus, however, was a javelin twisted with ivy-leaves, used in the sacrifices of Bacchus.

Thyrse or thyrsus, a compact and pyramidal panicle of cymes or cymules, 79.

Bacchus is generally represented as crowned with ivy or grape leaves and bearing an ivy-circled wand (the thyrsus).

Since I shall never tire, neither night nor day, striking the earth with the thyrsus.

The common Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) has its flowers disposed in a kind of panicled raceme called a thyrsus.

A contracted or elongated inflorescence of this sort is called a thyrsus.

The spears were wrapped round with ivy, and the thyrsus had a sharp point.

The faces of the two satyrs and the head of the thyrsus are also much mutilated.

He is surrounded by his usual rout of attendants, one of whom bears a thyrsus.

Come, O thou of golden face, brandishing your thyrsus along Olympus, and restrain the insolence of the blood-thirsty man.

Word Value for thyrsus
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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