manna
IPA: mˈænʌ
noun
- (biblical) Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
- (by extension) Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
- The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/forest/plants/gum.html
- A surname from Italian.
- A surname from Bengali.
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Examples of "manna" in Sentences
- It was manna from heaven, so to speak .
- Manna from heaven and the airborne rangers.
- The more manna, the more upgrade possibilities.
- Bdellium is whitish in colour, similar to manna.
- The Manna is the dessert sustained them in their journey.
- There is no connection whatsoever between manna and mana.
- This verse is in the context of collecting the Manna bread.
- It seems to me to assert that manna is the excretion of bugs.
- Operation Manna, last month or so of the war in the Netherlands.
- And the Manna ceased on the morrow when they ate of the produce of the land...
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