Usually means: Staff, topped with pinecone, Dionysian.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. thyrsus: Merriam-Webster
  2. thyrsus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thyrsus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thyrsus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thyrsus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thyrsus, thyrsus: Wordnik
  7. thyrsus: Wiktionary
  8. thyrsus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. thyrsus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. thyrsus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. thyrsus: Dictionary.com
  12. thyrsus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Thyrsus (giant), Thyrsus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Thyrsus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. thyrsus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. thyrsus: Rhymezone
  17. Thyrsus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. thyrsus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. thyrsus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. thyrsus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. thyrsus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thyrsus: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thyrsus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thyrsus: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See thyrsi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (thyrsus)

noun:  A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
noun:  (botany) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

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