thyrsi in English

noun
1
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a staff or spear tipped with an ornament like a pine cone, carried by Dionysus and his followers.
Frenzied with wine they rushed through woods and over mountains uttering sharp cries, waving pine-cone-tipped wands ( thyrsi ).
noun
    thyrse

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