Manca vs Manna - What's the difference?
manca | manna |
(arthropodology) The post-larval juveniles in some crustacean species.
Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
By extension, any good thing which comes into one's hands by luck or good fortune.
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]
* 1966 , Bill Beatty, Tales of Old Australia , National Distributors, ISBN 1-86436-013-5, page 14, discussing old Australian foods
As nouns the difference between manca and manna
is that manca is a mancus while manna is food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.manca
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(mancae)External links
* (wikipedia "manca") ----manna
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* (possibly archaic) manaNoun
(-)- The icing on the cake was made from manna, which was gathered under the manna gums. Manna mixed with milk made a splendid icing.