thyrsus
英 ['θɜːsəs]
美
- n. [植] 聚伞圆锥花序；酒神杖（酒神Bacchus所执的顶端为松果形的手杖）
英文词源
- thyrsus (n.)
- 1590s, from Latinized form of Greek thyrsos, literally "stalk or stem of a plant," a non-Greek word of unknown origin. The staff or spear, tipped with an ornament like a pine cone and sometimes wreathed in ivy and vine branches, borne by Dionysus and his votaries.
