thyrsus

IPA: θˈaɪrsʌs

A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
(botany) A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.

Examples of "thyrsus" in Sentences

The Dionysian thyrsus, like the later withche's wand, was willow.
Satyrs often carry the thyrsus: the rod of Dionysus tipped with a pine cone.
As she worshipped the god she typically held a thyrsus, a giant fennel staff topped with a pinecone.
The thyrsus was a long staff, carried by Bacchus, and by the Satyrs and Bacchanalians engaged in the worship of the God of the grape.
Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.
He is often to be found on this blog, either riding the Behemouth with a cowboy whoop or following behind it on foot, having set it off on a rampage with a swipe of his sacred thyrsus across its arse.