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Definition of Manna lichen
1. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manna Lichen
Literary usage of Manna lichen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Ten loose pieces of Manna-lichen, each as large as a hazel-nut, ... That this is
so is confirmed by the circumstance that the Manna- lichen after the storms ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"A man who practises obstetrics : an accoucheur. manna-lichen (man'a-li'ken;, n.
One of several species of lichens, particularly Lecanora esculenta and L. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"more probable, however, that the powdered manna-lichen was mixed with tamarisk-manna
... The manna-lichen was ground in querns or pounded in mortars (Num. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1902)
"In the steppe region and in the high lands of south-west Asia, the manna lichen
is used as a substitute for corn in years of famine—being ground in the same ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The arid regions in northern Africa and western Asia produce large quantities of
the manna-lichen, which is used to make bread, especially by the Tartars. ..."
6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"But the most singular esculent lichen of all is the " manna lichen," which in
times of drought and famine has served as food for large numbers of men and ..."
7. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"The nearest wooded land from the storm's direction, a thousand or more miles,
was African Abyssinia. A lichen (manna lichen) is said likewise to be carried ..."
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