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thyrsus

noun pl. thyrsi

  1. a staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes entwined with ivy or vine leaves, which Dionysus, the satyrs, etc. were represented as carrying
  2. Bot. a flower cluster in which the main stem is racemose and the secondary stems are cymose, as in the lilac
    also thyrse

See thyrsus in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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