myrrh /ˈmɝ/
 沒藥
 myrrh /ˈmɝ/ 名詞
 甜酒,沒藥(藥材)
 Myrrh n.  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.
 False myrrh. See the Note under Bdellium.
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 myrrh
      n 1: aromatic resin used in perfume and incense [syn: gum myrrh,
            sweet cicely]
      2: aromatic resin burned as incense and used in perfume [syn: gum
         myrrh]
 Myrrh
    Heb. mor. (1.) First mentioned as a principal ingredient in the
    holy anointing oil (Ex. 30:23). It formed part of the gifts
    brought by the wise men from the east, who came to worship the
    infant Jesus (Matt. 2:11). It was used in embalming (John
    19:39), also as a perfume (Esther 2:12; Ps. 45:8; Prov. 7:17).
    It was a custom of the Jews to give those who were condemned to
    death by crucifixion "wine mingled with myrrh" to produce
    insensibility. This drugged wine was probably partaken of by the
    two malefactors, but when the Roman soldiers pressed it upon
    Jesus "he received it not" (Mark 15:23). (See GALL.)
      This was the gum or viscid white liquid which flows from a
    tree resembling the acacia, found in Africa and Arabia, the
    Balsamodendron myrrha of botanists. The "bundle of myrrh" in
    Cant. 1:13 is rather a "bag" of myrrh or a scent-bag.
      (2.) Another word _lot_ is also translated "myrrh" (Gen.
    37:25; 43:11; R.V., marg., "or ladanum"). What was meant by this
    word is uncertain. It has been thought to be the chestnut,
    mastich, stacte, balsam, turpentine, pistachio nut, or the
    lotus. It is probably correctly rendered by the Latin word
    ladanum, the Arabic ladan, an aromatic juice of a shrub called
    the Cistus or rock rose, which has the same qualities, though in
    a slight degree, of opium, whence a decoction of opium is called
    laudanum. This plant was indigenous to Syria and Arabia.