Lexic.us

Definition of Myrrh

1. Noun. Aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume.

Definition of Myrrh

1. n. 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.

Definition of Myrrh

1. Noun. A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of the Commiphora myrrha tree. ¹

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Definition of Myrrh

1. an aromatic gum resin [n -S] : MYRRHIC [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myrrh

Literary usage of Myrrh

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"myrrh is a gum-resin highly esteemed by the ancients u an unguent and ... myrrh was one of the gifts offered by the Magi, and a royal oblation of gold, ..."

2. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"Arch. 43, 304), by distilling myrrh with water, obtained 1-fi to 3'1 pc of volatile oil, the quantity being smallest from myrrh which had an acid reaction, ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"Four hundred and fifty hundredweights of myrrh passed through the Aden ... In appearance it resembles the myrrh already described ; and the natives tell me ..."

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