单词 | myrrh shrub |
释义 | > as lemmasmyrrh shrub 2. A shrub or tree that yields myrrh. Also myrrh bush, myrrh shrub. Cf. myrrh tree n. Now chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > fragrant plants or plants used in perfumery > [noun] > trees or shrubs > myrrh shrub myrrh treec1390 myrrha1398 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 235 Mirra is a tree in arabia, fyue cubite hih and is liche to a þorne þat is y-cleped aromaticum. c1450 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Complaint Black Knight (Fairf.) 66 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 385 I sawe ther Daphene..The myrre also, that wepeth euer of kynde. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 285 Myrre is a tree that groweth fyue cubytes in lengthe. a1560 Fifteen Ois 310 in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 179 As a fagit that is dry Off mir. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 15 Turnd into a Mirrh, Whose dropping liquor euer weepes for her. 1637 J. Milton Comus 32 With groves of myrrhe, and cinnamon. 1658 N. Billingsley Κοσμοβρεϕια: Infancy of World 13 The beautious Firre Streight as an arrow; and the red'lent Myrrhe, The broad branch'd Plane-tree, [etc.] 1710 S. Cobb Passion of Myrrha in Poems Several Occasions (ed. 3) 85 Her Name shall flourish in Saboean Myrrh, An odoriferous Tree, so call'd from Her. 1781 A. Francis Poet. Transl. Song of Solomon iv. 53 The hill rich myrrh and aloes love, And mingling, graceful, form a grove. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song v, in Poems (new ed.) 114 Yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrhbush on the height. 1860 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 564/2 Gum-trees, myrrh, and some varieties of frankincense are found in great profusion. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. xii. 350 Where the myrrh and bdellium shrubs exhaled their fragrance. 1940 J. Wheelwright Polit. Self-portrait 15 Carp, all striped with gold slipped between ferns and the reflected myrrh. 1997 T. Hughes Tales from Ovid 114 While myrrh grows there it cannot be envied. < as lemmas |
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