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1. (n.) myrrh
an aromatic, bitter gum resin obtained from certain Arabian and E African woody plants and used chiefly in making incense and perfumes.
2. myrrh
any of these plants, esp. a small thorny tree, Commiphora myrrh, of the bursera family.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME, OE myrre < L myrrha < Gk mýrra&indirdesc; Akkadian murru; akin to Heb mōr, Ar murr)
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1. (noun) myrrh, gum myrrh, sweet cicely
aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume
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1. (noun) myrrh
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 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
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