thyrse

Questions about thyrse

What is another word for thyrse?

It depends which thyrse you mean. In the sense “a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose”, the synonyms are thyrsus. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of thyrse?

WordNet records no antonym for thyrse. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for thyrse come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for thyrseAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for thyrseWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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