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6-letter words (1 found)

THYRSE,

5-letter words (8 found)

RESTY,SHYER,STYRE,SYTHE,TEHRS,TREYS,TYERS,TYRES,

4-letter words (26 found)

ERST,ETHS,HERS,HERY,HEST,HETS,HEYS,HYES,HYTE,REHS,RESH,REST,RETS,RYES,SHET,STEY,STYE,TEHR,THEY,TRES,TREY,TRYE,TYER,TYES,TYRE,YEST,

3-letter words (30 found)

EHS,ERS,EST,ETH,HER,HES,HET,HEY,HYE,REH,RES,RET,RHY,RYE,SER,SET,SEY,SHE,SHY,STY,SYE,TES,THE,THY,TRY,TYE,YEH,YER,YES,YET,

2-letter words (10 found)

EH,ER,ES,ET,HE,RE,SH,ST,TE,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 76 words from thyrse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of thyrse

thyrse

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos) via Latin thyrsus and French thyrse. Doublet of thyrsus and torso.

Noun

thyrse (plural thyrses)

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

Derived terms

  • thyrsic
  • thyrsiform
  • thyrsoid

Translations

Anagrams

  • ethyrs


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin thyrsus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of torse, a borrowing from Italian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiʁs/

Noun

thyrse m (plural thyrses)

  1. thyrsus
  2. thyrse

Descendants

  • → English: thyrse (also via Latin)

Further reading

  • “thyrse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

thyrse

  1. vocative singular of thyrsus

Source: wiktionary.org