myrrh Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun aromatic resin that is burned as incense and used in perfume
    sweet cicely; gum myrrh.

WordNet

Myrrh noun
Etymology
OE. mirre, OF. mirre, F. myrrhe, L. myrrha, murra, Gr. cf. Ar. murr bitter, also myrrh, Heb. mar bitter.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913