ˈmyrrh-tree
[myrrh1.]
= myrrh1 2.
In MSS. of the Wycliffite Bible myrre tree occurs in several places as a variant reading for myrte tree.
| 1382 Wyclif Gen. xliii. 11 The licoure of myrre tree, and of therebynt, and of almaundis. a 1400 Propr. Sanct. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXI. 301 Mirre-tre þat ȝiueþ two-maner gummes. 1567 J. Maplet Gr. Forest 52 The Mirhe tree, sayth Plinie, groweth in the pastures and woods of Arabia. 1601 Lyly Love's Metam. i. ii. 103 Cinyras that with furie followed his daughter Mirrha, till shee was chaunged to a Mirre tree. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 571/2 The myrrh-tree..is a native of Abexim in Ethiopia. 1867 Tristram Nat. Hist. Bible xii. 365 Many modern travellers have noticed the Myrrh tree both in Arabia Felix (Saba) and in Eastern Africa. |