MYRRH
\mˈɜː], \mˈɜː], \m_ˈɜː]\
Definitions of MYRRH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A yellowish-brown gummy substance with a spicy fragrance, and a bitter taste, obtained from a shrub growing in Arabia and Abyssinia.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A gum-resin from Commiphora myrrha: astringent and stimulant.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A gum resin obtained from Comniphora myrrha. M. is a stimulant tonic, and appears to have a special action on the mucous membrane. It is usually combined with other medicines, and it used with other medicines, and is used in pectoral complaints with difficult expectoration, and, with aloes, in amenorrhea, etc.
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The genus Myrrhis. [Lat., Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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