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- English Word Thyrsus Definition A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.
- English Word Thyrsus Definition A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
- English Word Thysanopter Definition One of the Thysanoptera.
- English Word Thysanoptera Definition A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips.
- English Word Thysanopteran Definition One of the Thysanoptera.
- English Word Thysanopterous Definition Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera.
- English Word Thysanura Definition An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.
- English Word Thysanuran Definition One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Thysanurous Definition Of or pertaining to the Thysanura.
- English Word Thysbe Definition A common clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe).
- English Word Thyself Definition An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without thou, and in the nominative as well as in the objective case.
- English Word Tiar Definition A tiara.
- English Word Tiara Definition A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.
- English Word Tiara Definition The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.
- English Word Tiaraed Definition Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.
- English Word Tib-cat Definition A female cat.
- English Word Tibia Definition The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.
- English Word Tibia Definition The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.
- English Word Tibia Definition A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
- English Word Tibiae Definition of Tibia
- English Word Tibial Definition Of or pertaining to a tibia.
- English Word Tibial Definition Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.
- English Word Tibial Definition A tibial bone; a tibiale.
- English Word Tibiale Definition The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most mammals.
- English Word Tibialia Definition of Tibiale
- English Word Tibicinate Definition To play on a tibia, or pipe.
- English Word Tibio- Definition A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.
- English Word Tibiotarsal Definition Of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation.
- English Word Tibiotarsal Definition Of or pertaining to the tibiotarsus.
- English Word Tibiotarsi Definition of Tibiotarsus