manna

• ⇰ मन्ना
• ⇰ दिव्यान्न

• ⇰ The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
• ⇰ A name given to lichens of the genus <gen>Lecanora</gen>, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food; called also manna lichen>.
• ⇰ 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 <spn>Fraxinus Ornus</spn>, and <spn>Fraxinus rotundifolia</spn>, the manna ashes of Souther