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aloes
has definitions from the fields of medicine,pharmacology
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[ noun ] (medicine,pharmacology) a purgative made from the leaves of aloe
Synonyms Used in print (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)He brought with him a mixture of myrrh and aloes , of about a_hundred pounds ' weight . Perhaps after the soldiers had laid him on the ground , while Joseph_of_Arimathea was at Pontius_Pilate 's asking for Christ 's body , Nicodemus was gathering his mixture of myrrh and aloes , and the others had gone_home to mourn . Related terms |
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