manna : Idioms & Phrases

• noun southern Mediterranean ash having fragrant white flowers in dense panicles and yielding manna
  flowering ash; Fraxinus ornus.
  

WordNet

Man"na croup`

Etymology

Manna + Russ. & Pol. krupa groats, grits.

Definitions

1. The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats.
2. The husked grains of manna grass.

Webster 1913

• noun (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus
  miraculous food; manna.
  
• noun a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
  gravy; windfall; bunce; bonanza; boom; gold rush; godsend.
  
  • the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line

WordNet

• noun any of several moisture-loving grasses of the genus Glyceria having sweet flavor or odor
  sweet grass.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a name of several tall slender grasses of the genus Glyceria. they have long loose panicles, and grow in moist places. Nerved manna grass is Glyceria nervata, and Floating manna grass is G. flu.

Webster 1913

• noun tall tree yielding a false manna
  Eucalyptus viminalis.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl), a scale insect (Gossyparia mannipara), which causes the exudation of manna from the Tamarisk tree in Arabia.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several Old World partially crustaceous or shrubby lecanoras that roll up and are blown about over African and Arabian deserts and used as food by people and animals
  

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