Manna

n.	1.	(Script.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
	2.	(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.
	3.	(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. Manna insect (Zool) a scale insect (Gossyparia mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarix tree in Arabia.

Noun	1.	manna - hardened sugary exudation of various trees
	2.	manna - (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus Synonyms: manna from heaven, miraculous food

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