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Webster 1913 Edition
Myrrh
Myrrh
,Noun.
[OE.
mirre
, OF. mirre
, F. myrrhe
, L. myrrha
, murra
, Gr. [GREEK]; cf. Ar. murr
bitter, also myrrh, Heb. mar
bitter.] 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 exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the
Commiphora Myrrha
(syn. Balsamodendron Myrrha
) of the family Burseraceae
, or from the Commiphora abyssinica
. 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
.Webster 1828 Edition
Myrrh
MYRRH
,Noun.
mer.
Definition 2024
myrrh
myrrh
English
Myrrh.
Noun
myrrh (usually uncountable, plural myrrhs)
- (uncountable) A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of a tree of the species Commiphora myrrha.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 98)
- The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.
- 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p. 98)
Translations
dried sap of the myrrha tree
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