myrrh

An aromatic gum resin obtained from several trees and shrubs of the genus Commiphora of northeastern Africa and Arabia, used in perfume, incense, and medicinal preparations.

A gummy resinous exudation from several species of Commiphora (Balsamodendron).

The sweet cicely of Europe. See Myrrhis.

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.

See the Note under Bdellium.

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

aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume