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MYRRH
myrrh, gum myrrh, sweet cicely
(noun) aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
myrrh (usually uncountable, plural myrrhs)
A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha.
(Scotland) The herb chervil.
Source: Wiktionary
Myrrh, n. Etym: [OE. mirre, OF. mirre, F. myrrhe, L. myrrha, murra, Gr. murr bitter, also myrrh, Heb. mar bitter.]
Definition: A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exuds from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose. False myrrh. See the Note under Bdellium.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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