- 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 Lecanora, sometimes
blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and
used as food. - 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.
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