manna
- Noun. Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
- Noun. By extension, any good thing which comes into one's hands by luck or good fortune.
- Noun. 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].
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