Lexic.us

Definition of Manna

1. Noun. Hardened sugary exudation of various trees.

2. Noun. (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus.

Definition of Manna

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

Definition of Manna

1. Noun. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus. ¹

2. Noun. By extension, any good thing which comes into one's hands by luck or good fortune. ¹

3. Noun. The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.[ ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Manna

1. divinely supplied food [n -S]

Medical Definition of Manna

1. 1. The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food. 2. 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. 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. Persian manna is the secretion of the camel's thorn (see Camel's thorn, under Camel); Tamarisk manna, that of the Tamarisk mannifera, a shrub of Western Asia; Australian, manna, that of certain species of eucalyptus; Briancon manna, that of the European larch. Manna grass, a scale insect (Gossyparia mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarisk tree in Arabia. Origin: L, fr. Gr, Heb. Man; cf. Ar. Mann, properly, gift (of heaven). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Manna

manlessly manlier manliest manlike manlikely manlily manlinesses manling manlings manlock

manlocks manly manmade manmade wetland manna (current term) manna ash manna cannellata manna from heaven manna gum manna gums

manna lichen manna sugar mannalike mannan mannan synthetase mannanase mannanases mannans

Literary usage of Manna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"A man who practises obstetrics : an accoucheur. manna-lichen ... The circumstances attending the gift of manna show that It was believed to be miraculous. ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1792)
"There is indeed a third kind of manna, which is not commonly to be met with, and which I have feen after I left Calabria: it is very white, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"manna, a concrete saccharine exudation obtained by making incisions in the ... The finest or flaky manna appears to have been allowed to harden on the stem. ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1792)
"There is indeed a third kind of manna, which is not commonly to be met wiih, and which I have feen after I left Calabria: it is very white, ..."

Other Resources: