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单词 manna
释义 man·na
\ˈmanə\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin, from Greek, from Hebrew mān
1.
 a. : food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness
 b. : divinely supplied spiritual nourishment
 c. : something of value that falls one's way : windfall
  < the seasonal manna of flying ants and palm grubs are … joyfully accepted for the cooking pot — Norman Lewis >
  < onto the pavement fell a strange manna of caramels and razors — Constantine FitzGibbon >
2.
 a. : the sweetish dried exudation of the European flowering ash and related plants that contains mannitol as its chief constituent and has been used medicinally as a laxative and demulcent
 b. : a similar product from various other plants (as a tamarisk)
3.
 a. : manna lichen
 b. : manna grass
 c. : manna ash
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