The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thyrse \Thyrse\ (th[~e]rs), n. [Cf. F. thyrse.] A thyrsus.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) A type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes. 2 (context archaic English) A thyrsus.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A thyrse is a type of inflorescence in which the main axis grows indeterminately, and the subaxes (branches) have determinate growth.
Usage examples of "thyrse".
The trail took him into a land of white dolomite crags, flat lakes reflecting the violet sky, forests of thyrse, kil and diakapre.
Departing the inn, Jubal walked out into a land of gleaming white crags and air fresh with the scent of damp thyrse and ground-mint.
Jubal put the Djan to work preparing a new footing, then cut four straight thyrse, from which he constructed a rude derrick overhanging the gully.
The shepherds and shepherdesses they had imagined came into reality, singing and dancing, while forty satyrs and bacchantes scaled a high rock on which they whirled their thyrses and clashed their cymbals before descending to surround the company and lead it toward the theatre.
Jubal borrowed Trewe’s old ercycle and rode thirty miles up the side of Eirse Mountain, through forests of stunted ebane and tall thin thyrse, across stony glades and dark dells, and finally arrived at Vaidro’s antique house: a rambling tall-roofed structure of dark wood.