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myrrhic

adjective/ˈmɜːɹik/

What It Means

Of, related to, or derived from myrrh.

Having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic.

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Myrrhic in Context

“Above us the avern brooded like a gonfalon; from it there drifted a myrrhic perfume.”

— 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, page 217

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From myrrh + -ic.

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