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Definition of Thyrses
1. thyrse [n] - See also: thyrse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thyrses
Literary usage of Thyrses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... sometimes a foot long: fls. rose-purple, ascending, arched at the top and the
lower lip recurving, borne in dense terminal spike-like thyrses. Brazil. ..."
2. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"Trees or shrubs with opposite leaves : flowers in terminal panicles or thyrses :
calyx 4-toothed, deciduous : corolla funnel-shaped, tube longer than the ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Shrubs with opposite entire (rarely pinnatifid) leaves, and completely gamopetalous
flowers, in dense terminal panicles or thyrses. ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Shrubs with opposite entire (rarely pinnatifid) leaves, and completely gamopetalous
flowers, in dense terminal panicles or thyrses. ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"... in terminal pani- _ cled cymes or thyrses. Calyx s-parted or 5-cleft.
the segments or lobes mostly obtuse. Corolla irregular, the tube globose to oblong ..."
6. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... and complete gamopetalous flowers, in dense terminal panicles or thyrses. ...
terminal thyrses; calyx about 1" long; corolla-tube about 1" in diameter; ..."
7. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... 2'-$' long, i'-3' wide; petioles l/í'-\' long; flowers lilac or white, very
numerous, 5//-7// long, 4//-5// broad, in large terminal thyrses; ..."
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