manna

1. Manna
   (Bot) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food; called also manna lichen.
2. Manna
   (Bot. & Med) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and Fraxinus rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.
3. Manna
   (Script) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

1. (n) manna
   The food by which the children of Israel were sustained in the wilderness (Ex. xvi. 14-36; Num. xi. 6, 7). The circumstances attending the gift of manna show that it was believed to be miraculous. Modern commentators differ in opinion as to its probable nature: by some it is identified with an exudation of the tamarisk-tree, and by others with a lichen which, torn from its home and carried vast distances by the wind, still falls and is gathered for food in the Sinaitic peninsula (see manna-lichen); and by others it is regarded as a special and miraculous creation.
2. (n) manna
   Hence Delicious food for either the body or the mind; delectable material for nourishment or entertainment.
3. (n) manna
   Divine or spiritual food.
4. (n) manna
   In pharmacy, a sweet concrete juice obtained by incisions made in the stem of Fraxinus Ornus, a native of Sicily, Calabria, and other parts of the south of Europe, and from other species of ash. It is either naturally concreted or exsiccated and purified by art. At the present day the manna of commerce is collected exclusively in Sicily, where the manna-ash is cultivated for the purpose in regular plantations. The best manna is in oblong pieces or flakes of a whitish or pale-yellow color, light, friable, and somewhat transparent. It has a slight peculiar odor, and a sweetish taste mixed with a slight degree of bitterness, and is employed as a gentle laxative for children or persons of weak habit. It is, however, generally used as an adjunct to other more active medicines. It consists principally of a crystallizable sweet substance named mannite, and certain other substances in smaller quantity. Sweetish secretions exuded by some other plants growing in warm and dry climates, as the Eucalyptus viminalis, the manna-gum tree of Australia, and the Tamarix Gallica, var. mannifera, of Arabia and Syria, are also considered to be kinds of manna. Small quantities of manna, known as Briaçon manna, are obtained from the common larch, Larix Europæa.
5. (n) manna
   The secretion of the tamarisk, Tamarix Gallica, var. mannifera. It is a honey-like liquid which exudes from punctures made by an insect, hardens on the stems, and drops to the ground. It is collected by the Arabs as a delicacy.

1. (n) Manna
   man′a the food supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness of Arabia: delicious food for body or mind: a sweet juice or gum got from many trees, as the ash of Sicily

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