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  thyrse - Search Results - MSN Encarta
A dense, paniclelike flower cluster, as of the lilac, in which the lateral branches terminate in...
An iodine-containing hormone, C 15 H 11 I 4 NO 4, produced by the thyroid gland, that increases the rate...
Thyrse definition, words related to thyrse, proper usage and pronunciation of the word thyrse from...
ca.encarta.msn.com /thyrse.html   (137 words)

  
 Le thyrse
Et quel est, cependant, le mortel imprudent qui osera décider si les fleurs et les pampres ont été faits pour le bâton, ou si le bâton n'est que le prétexte pour montrer la beauté des pampres et des fleurs?
Le thyrse est la représentation de votre étonnante dualité, maître puissant et vénéré, cher Bacchant de la Beauté mystérieuse et passionnée.
Jamais nymphe exaspérée par l'invincible Bacchus ne secoua son thyrse sur les têtes de ses compagnes affolées avec autant d'énergie et de caprice que vous agitez votre génie sur les coeurs de vos frères.
www.accents-poetiques.com /article.php3?id_article=882   (334 words)

  
  THYRSE - WHAT IS IT AND WHY IS IT IN THE BROMELIAD GLOSSARY, By: Derek Butcher
The name "thyrse" had me intrigued because as far as I was aware it was a botanical description of how the flowers were arranged in the inflorescence.
No reference to a thyrse and I couldn't understand the definition in the Bromeliad Glossary of the B.S.I. I quote...
Gradually it dawned that there was a THYRSE in the general sense and a THYRSE in the strict sense!
fcbs.org /articles/Thyrse.htm   (508 words)

  
 Silene in Flora of China @ efloras.org
Calyx tubular, funnel-shaped, campanulate, or ovoid, usually 10-veined, with 5 teeth with ciliate membranous margin; the form of this margin usually varies between teeth in a single calyx.
Inflorescence a regular or irregular thyrse composed of dichasial or 1-flowered cymules.
Cymules shortly stalked, thyrse appearing racemose at least distally; petals white or yellowish white.
www.efloras.org /florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=130349   (814 words)

  
 Ginger LaVoie - Flower Glossary
The leaves are arranged spirally around the stem.
The inflorescence is a terminal thyrse, a panicle with an indeterminate central axis.
As long as conditions are conducive to blooming, the thyrse will continue to expand upward adding flower buds at the top.
www.textsandtech.org /~fhc/lavoie/flowers.html   (914 words)

  
 Excerpt from Firethorn prologue, page 2
The Dame held that village and two more at her father's pleasure, and at King Thyrse's pleasure too, for her holdings lay within the Kingswood and under forest law.
The king had given her dispensation to take dyestuffs from the woods, as he prized the tapestries she wove.
It was said King Thyrse was so jealous of his belongings that he kept a tally of every deer and oak in his forest; and the pigherds swore he counted every acorn too, when they drove the pigs into the woods in autumn to fatten on the mast.
www.firethorn.info /ftexcerpt2.htm   (603 words)

  
 Niches :: Beardtongue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The inflorescence of beardtongues is a type of panicle called a thyrse.
A thyrse, pronounced like “thirst” without the “t”, is an inflorescence whose main stem is a raceme, with secondary inflorescences that are cymes.
So not only can you compound basic pure inflorescences (racemes to panicles) but you can also mix up various pure inflorescences to make a new one.
sparkleberrysprings.com /v-web/b2/index.php?p=213&c=1   (683 words)

  
 WHITE-HAIRED GOLDENROD, Solidago albopilosa, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Petioles are one-half to one-third the length of the leaf blade and are scarcely winged to rounded.
The inflorescence is composed of axillary clusters or is sometimes thyrsoid; however, the thyrse, when present, is poorly developed.
Flower heads are composed of four or five (rarely three) 5- to 6.4-millimeters (mm) long ray florets and more than fifteen 3-mm-long disk florets.
www.fws.gov /endangered/i/q/saq4t.html   (1720 words)

  
 Beastiary
There are only two good things which can be said about the thyrse: they are among the rarest of fynds, and they cannot abide the light of day.
Appearance: A Thyrse may top 5 ½ feet when erect, but typically it slouches and runs on all fours.
Cold Touch: The claws of the Thyrse seem to pull the heat from the body.
www.bmarch.atfreeweb.com /beastiary.htm   (1643 words)

  
 Rocket, Garden
The stems are very erect, and grow from 2 to 3 feet in height, with spearshaped, pointed leaves.
The flowers, white purple, or variegated, are produced in a simple thyrse at the top of the stalk.
Johnson wrote of a double-white variety in 1633.
www.nisbett.com /herbs/r/rocket16.html   (266 words)

  
 Development of the gametophytes, flower, and floral vasculature in Dichorisandra thyrsiflora (Commelinaceae) -- Hardy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
thyrse composed of numerous pedunculate scorpioid cymes (Fig.
Thyrse with open flower; scale bar = 1 cm.
Diagram of individual cincinnus; flowers are numbered according to order of initiation; arrows represent plane of floral symmetry.
www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/87/9/1228   (5562 words)

  
 Chromosomes of Villadia and Altamiranoa (Crassulaceae) -- Uhl and Moran 86 (3): 387 -- American Journal of Botany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
ascending leaves and a dense thyrse of white or pinkish flowers,
papillose-roughened stems and with a raceme or lax thyrse of
Chihuahua and Durango, has a dense spike or thyrse, the corolla
www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/86/3/387   (4250 words)

  
 Thyrse
6 letters in word "thyrse": E H R S T Y.
No anagrams for thyrse found in this word list.
Words formed from thyrse by changing one letter
wordnavigator.com /word/thyrse   (48 words)

  
 Photo of Thyrse House: Near angle view from Pottinger Street.
Photo of Thyrse House: Near angle view from Pottinger Street.
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However, you can buy usage rights if the image belongs to our staff.
www.emporis.com /en/il/im?id=130609   (65 words)

  
 Plant of the Week 0718/2005: Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The flowers are borne on an unusual inflorescence, a thyrse.
The central leader of a thyrse is indeterminate; its growth is not arrested by the opening of the first flowers.
It continues growing until the plant wears itself out or cool weather intervenes.
www.killerplants.com /plant-of-the-week/20050718.asp   (303 words)

  
 Prepare Poetry eCard
Here we securely live, and eat The cream of meat; And keep eternal fires, By which we sit, and do divine, As wine And rage inspires.
If full, we charm; then call upon Anacreon To grace the frantic Thyrse: And having drunk, we raise a shout Throughout, To praise his verse.
Then cause we Horace to be read, Which sung or said, A goblet, to the brim, Of lyric wine, both swell'd and crown'd, Around We quaff to him.
www.poemhunter.com /ecard/1/prepare.asp?poem=16007   (185 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Firethorn: Books: Sarah Micklem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A mysterious foundling with unique red hair and strange god-given powers, Firethorn is condemned to life as a powerless servant--or so she believes, until one of King Thyrse's noblemen becomes her lover.
But, as she accompanies Sire Galan to war, Firethorn discovers she may have traded one form of bondage for another.
Sire Rodela, Consort Vulpeja, Divine Xyster, Sire Alcoba, King Thyrse, Dame Lyra, Maid Vulpeja, Sire Bizco, Divine Hamus, Sire Guasca, Queenmother Caelum, Sire Torosus, Queen of the Dead, Sire Voltizo, Ardor Wildfire, Sire Rassis, Inward Sea, First of Crux, Summons Day, Sire Fanfarron, Sire Lebrel, Wend Weaver, Divine Tambac, Hazard Chance, Rift Dread
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/055338340X?v=glance   (3285 words)

  
 Hotel Le Trident Thyrse Royan - Reviews & Official Contact Details
Hotel Le Trident Thyrse Royan - Reviews & Official Contact Details
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www.travel-library.com /hotels/europe/france/royan/hotel_le_trident_thyrse.html   (94 words)

  
 thyrse - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
We found no French translation for 'thyrse' in our English to French Dictionary.
Or did you want to translate 'thyrse' from French to English?
Forum discussions with the word(s) 'thyrse' in the title:
www.wordreference.com /enfr/thyrse   (49 words)

  
 Inflorescence type
The inflorescence type: catkin, head, raceme, thyrse, or umbel for example.
Displayed using a drop-down list with customized icons.
For similar pages in the "Specifications" series see:
www.crescentbloom.com /I/F/C/InflorescenceType.htm   (136 words)

  
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Features traditionally used to distinguish the species in Solidago are panicle type (open panicle with secund branches versus thyrse), stem and leaf pubescence, and leaf venation (1 or 3 prominent veins).
11 Basal leaves absent at flowering time; cauline leaves broad, some dentate; creeping rhizomes present; middle phyllaries broadly acute, in about 3 ranks; inflorescence a compact thyrse with occasional lower branches recurved with secund flowers...
11 Basal leaves present at flowering time; cauline leaves not much reduced, similar to basal leaves; caudex or short rhizome developed, creeping rhizome absent; phyllaries rounded, in 4 ranks, inflorescence a loose thyrse, flowers not secund...
web.nmsu.edu /~kallred/herbweb/newpage27.htm   (4390 words)

  
 Robert Herrick. A Hymn to Bacchus. (II)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Who with thy thyrse dost thwack us :
Created by Anniina Jokinen on April 29, 2002.
Background from a tile by Stormi Wallpaper Boutique.
www.luminarium.org /sevenlit/herrick/hymntobacchus2.htm   (24 words)

  
 Poison Ivy
Flowers and Fruit: Flowering occurs May through June.
Inflorescence consists of a lateral paniculate thyrse 2.5 to 7.5 cm long, with small, yellowish-green flowers, 2 to 5 mm across.
The drupe is often persists on the thyrse throughout the winter.
www.uky.edu /Agriculture/Agronomy/Weeds/poison_ivy.htm   (518 words)

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