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myrrhGum resin produced by several small trees belonging to the bursera family, especially C. myrrha, found in Ethiopia and Arabia. In ancient times it was used for incense and perfume and in embalming dead bodies. (Genus Commiphora, family Burseraceae.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Must it not be to that famous elephant, with jewelled tusks, and redolent with myrrh, which was led out of an Indian town to do honor to Alexander the Great? ---Ay, as willingly as when, in the Gulf of Lyons, I flung over my merchandise to lighten the ship, while she laboured in the tempest---robed the seething billows in my choice silks---perfumed their briny foam with myrrh and aloes---enriched their caverns with gold and silver work if he could go back even for a brief month of it, to feel again the brush of leafy branches against his naked hide; to smell the musty rot of dead vegetation--frankincense and myrrh to the jungle born; to sense the noiseless coming of the great carnivora upon his trail; to hunt and to be hunted; to kill |
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