Usually means: Clustered, branching form of inflorescence.
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  1. thyrse: Merriam-Webster
  2. thyrse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. thyrse: Collins English Dictionary
  4. thyrse: Vocabulary.com
  5. thyrse: Wordnik
  6. thyrse: Wiktionary
  7. thyrse: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. thyrse: Dictionary.com
  9. Thyrse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Thyrse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. thyrse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. thyrse: Rhymezone
  13. Thyrse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. thyrse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. thyrse: FreeDictionary.org
  16. thyrse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. thyrse: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. thyrse: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

(Note: See thyrses as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thyrse)

noun:  (botany) A type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes.
noun:  (archaic) A thyrsus (staff with conical ornament).

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