Myrrha

American  

[meer-uh] / ˈmɪər ə /

noun

1. Classical Mythology. a daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus who had incestuous relations with her father and was changed into a myrrh tree by the gods. Their child, Adonis, was born from the split trunk of the tree.

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Example Sentences

The walls of his home are covered in paintings, including a 17th-century depiction of Adonis and his mother Myrrha by an anonymous Venetian artist.

From New York Times • May 25, 2023

Stangenberg, an striking and eccentric comédienne, returns later in the evening as Myrrha, an enslaved Greek woman who is Sardanapalus’s lover.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Myrrha Stanford-Smith, who has had her debut novel published at 82.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2010

Yet his conception of Sardanapalus and Myrrha is fine and ideal, and in the style of excellence which we have just been admiring in Shakespeare and Scott.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

Sardanapalus," he adds:— "But the principal beauty of this drama is the conception of Myrrha.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir