Commiphora

noun

genus of East Indian and African trees yielding balsamic products

• Syn: ↑genus Commiphora

• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Burseraceae, ↑family Burseraceae, ↑torchwood family

• Member Meronyms: ↑balm of gilead, ↑Commiphora meccanensis, ↑myrrh tree, ↑Commiphora myrrha

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\\kəˈmifərə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kommi gum + New Latin -phora — more at gum

: a large genus of East Indian and African trees (family Burseraceae) yielding balsamic products (as the resins of C. schimperi of Abyssinia, C. kataf of Arabia, and others that are used as substitutes for myrrh) — see balm of gilead, myrrh

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Commiphora /ko-mifˈə-rə/

noun

A genus of plants of the family Burseraceae, natives of tropical Asia and Africa, yielding myrrh, bdellium and other resins

ORIGIN: Gr kommi gum, and phoreein to bear