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Word | Myrrh |
Swedish Meaning | myrra |
aromatic resin used in perfume and incense / 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. / a fragrant gum resin obtained from certain trees and used, especially in the Near East, in perfumery, medicines, and incense., | |
Usage | ⇒ They valued its trees which produced the aromatic gum resins frankincense and myrrh . |
Synonyms | balm, balsam, frankincense, ambergris, gum myrrh, mastic, resin, amber, gum, gum resin, musk, perfume, scent, sweet cicely, agar, algin, ambrosia, aromatic, aromatic gum, aromatic water, |
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