Manna

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1. Noun

The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

2. Noun

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.

3. Noun

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 F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.

4. Noun

hardened sugary exudation of various trees
Vocabulary classified under Chemistry

5. Noun

(Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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