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Thyrsic vs Thyrse - What's the difference?

thyrsic | thyrse | Derived terms |

Thyrsic is a derived term of thyrse.


As a noun thyrse is

(botany) a type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes.

thyrsic

Not English

Thyrsic has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'thyrsic':

tricycle, tragic, thoracic, trochaic, trackage, theurgic, truckage, traceuse, turgesce, traycase

thyrse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes.
  • * 1804 , Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany , page 143,
    • The Thyrsus *, or Thyrse', is a mode of inflorescence very nearly allied to the panicle, being, in fact, a panicle contracted into an ovate, or egg-shaped form. In the ' thyrse , the middle footstalks, which are longer, extend horizontally, whilst the upper and lower oes are shorter, and rise up vertically.
  • * 1840 , Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Boughton Kingdon (translator), Vegetable Organography , Volume II, page 24,
    • The example of the thyrse' of ''Eugenia'' leads us to understand several inflorescences which resemble also racemes or panicles; such are the ' thyrses of the Lilac.
  • * 1998 , D. W. Stevenson, M. Colella, B. Boom, Rapateaceae'', Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber (editors), ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants , Volume IV: Flowering Plants, Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae), page 417,
    • The number of spikelets is variable, and some genera have thyrses with 70 spikelets (Saxofridericia'', ''Spathanthus'') or only 1-3 spikelets per inflorescence (''Stegolepsis'', ''Monotrema ).
  • (archaic) A thyrsus.

    • Derived terms

    * thyrsic * thyrsiform * thyrsoid

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