单词	thyrsus
释义	thyrsus /ˈθəːsəs / noun (plural thyrsi /ˈθəːsʌɪ/ /ˈθəːsiː/) (In ancient Greece and Rome) a staff or spear tipped with an ornament like a pine cone, carried by Bacchus and his followers.Frenzied with wine they rushed through woods and over mountains uttering sharp cries, waving pine-cone-tipped wands (thyrsi).... The fabulous history of Bacchus relates that he converted the thyrsi carried by himself and his followers into dangerous weapons, by concealing an iron point in the head of leaves. Primrose is a very leafy shrub, producing small, yellowish thyrsi. Origin Latin, from Greek thursos 'plant stalk, Bacchic staff'. Rhymes excursus, versus
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