Thesaurus: myrrh

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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.
2. n. aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume
3. 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.
4. A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of anaromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued forits odor and for its medicinal properties. It exuds from the bark ofa shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrhof the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, andpartly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose. False myrrh.See the Note under Bdellium.
5. n:100 n. aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume