Cistus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Cistus	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Cistus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Cistus n small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa Synonym(s): Cistus, genus Cistus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Myrrh \Myrrh\, n. [OE. mirre, OF. mirre, F. myrrhe, L. myrrha, murra, Gr. [?]; cf. Ar. murr bitter, also myrrh, Heb. mar bitter.] 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 {Balsamodendron Myrrha}. 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}.