Myrrh

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An aromatic gum resin obtained from several trees and shrubs of the genus Commiphora of India, Arabia, and eastern Africa, used in perfume and incense. Also called balm of Gilead.
  • n. See sweet cicely.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of the Commiphora myrrha tree.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A gummy resinous exudation from several species of Commiphora (Balsamodendron).
  • n. The sweet cicely of Europe. See Myrrhis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume
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    gum resin   
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