(n.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anti-B-512-dextran represents a specific reagent for alpha-1,6-linked polyglucose, as evidenced by complete cross-reactivity with synthetic linear dextran; its specificity is emphasized by non-reactivity with alpha-1,6-linked synthetic manna, the monomeric residues of the two polymers differing only in position of the C-2 hydroxyl groups.
(2) This is manna from heaven for her and he loves it too.
(3) H. valbyensis, H. uvarum, and K. apiculata were a group which formed mannans which had identical H-1 regions in their proton magnetic resonance (PMR) spectra, and H. osmophila, K. africana, and K. magna mannas formed another group based on similar spectra.
(4) This is manna from heaven for Clinton and Trump loves it too Frank Luntz, Republican pollster Indeed, the public disclosure of her emails have, if anything, helped to humanise her: it emerged, for example, that she watches The Good Wife and Parks and Recreation but needed an aide’s help to find Homeland.
(5) It was like manna from heaven for George Osborne when the west's leading economic thinktank instructed its rich members back in May to tackle budget deficits without delay.
(6) Chris Woodhead 1994-2000 A thorn to teachers; manna for journalists.
(7) This does not stop the shameless duo from taking full credit for the manna from heaven, and doing their best to present the resulting boost to the economy as all part of their long-term plan.
(8) 8.58am: Yesterday's joint press conference was manna from heaven for the newspaper front pages.
(9) (2) MC540-mediated photolysis is not cell-cycle dependent (Manna and Sieber, 1985).
(10) Low fuel costs for a modern economy run on oil is manna from heaven.
(11) This was literally manna from heaven and it made them very happy to reach somebody in need.
(12) It has been pointed out that there are more economical ways to play Scrabble – on a Scrabble board, for example – but this hasn't stopped this app being hailed as manna from gadget heaven.
(13) By arguing that growth rates fell sharply when a nation's debt as a proportion of its annual output reached 90%, it was manna from heaven for those policy makers keen to take immediate and tough action to tighten fiscal policy.
(14) Acid treatment of the cell-wall D-mannas of Candida stellatoidea strains ATCC 36232 (Type I, A3 strain) and ATCC 20408 (Type II, A2 strain) gave (1----2)-linked beta-D-manno-oligosaccharides (dp 2-5), whereas treatment with alkali gave the (1----2)-linked alpha-D-mannobiose.
(15) Serologically active D-arabino-D-mannas ([alpha]D, +82 degrees approximately 89 degrees; ratio of D-arabinose to D-mannose, 1-2:1) were isolated from the soluble fraction of disintegrated cells of M. tuberculosis, M. smegmatis, and several other Mycobacterium species.
Nanna
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He met community groups, including the Knitting Nannas Against Gas, which succeeded in forcing the Coalition to suspend Metgasco’s coal seam gas licence at Bentley.
(2) Extracts from different plant parts of Amorpha fruticosa, A. nanna, and A. canescens gave several spots with color and Rf values similar to those of Cannabis sativa extract.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Knitting Nannas Against Gas wait for NSW Labor leader Luke Foley in Bentley.
(4) I feel like the snake handler on Blue Peter … the last time I saw something like this, it was at dead Fat Nanna’s house, across the bottom of the front door, as a draught excluder, with two buttons for eyes.” She finds that she spends the entire time thinking only about what he’s thinking.
(5) Sulphasalazine was first produced nearly 50 years ago through the inspiration of a Swedish doctor, Dr Nanna Svartz.
(6) "Most of my family are here tonight," Campbell said, "my brothers, sister, mam and dad, my nanna, my littleboy, my partner, Leo and Lindsey, and her family too.
(7) My heart has been ripped apart, Lisa you really were such an amazing woman, the perfect mum to India and Lauran, and the coolest nanna to Jayden.
(8) The official line of argument against clinical obstetrics consisted of a queer and highly questionable mélange of ideology and distored facts brought forward by the so-called "Reichsgesundheitsführer" Dr. Leonardo Conti and his mother, Mrs Nanna Conti as head of the Party-sponsored Midwives Association.