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myrrha

Speech parts

1. myrrha - Noun

2. Myrrha - Proper noun

Meaning

myrrha (uncountable)

(medicine, archaic) myrrh

Myrrha

(Greek mythology) The daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, who tricks her father into having sexual intercourse with her and escapes the king's wrath by being transformed into a myrrh tree, later giving birth to Adonis.

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Landormy, p. 431 Ravel admitted in 1926 that he had submitted at least one piece deliberately parodying the required conventional form: the cantata Myrrha, which he wrote for the 1901 competition. Source: Internet

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