murra

murra (myrrha, murrha) ae, f

, μύρρα, the myrrh-tree, an Arabian tree, of which myrrh was the sap: Dum ferat et murram (terra), O.— Myrrh, the gum of the myrrh-tree (used as hairointment): crines murrā madentes, V., O.—Person., a daughter of Cinyras, changed into a myrrhtree, O.