myrrh
noun/mɜː(r)/
/mɜːr/
[uncountable]- a sticky substance with a sweet smell that comes from trees and is used to make perfume and incenseWord OriginOld English myrra, myrre, via Latin from Greek murra, of Semitic origin; compare with Arabic murr ‘bitter’.
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