fraxinus ornus

4 definitions found

fraxinus ornus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  manna ash \manna ash\ n. (Bot.),
     A South Mediterranean ash (Fraxinus ornus) having fragrant
     white flowers in dense panicles and yielding manna.
  
     Syn: flowering ash, Fraxinus ornus.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  Manna \Man"na\ (m[a^]n"n[.a]), n. [L., fr. Gr. ma`nna, Heb.
     m[=a]n; cf. Ar. mann, properly, gift (of heaven).]
     1. (Script.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their
        journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely
        supplied food. --Ex. xvi. 15.
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     2. (Bot.) 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; called also manna  lichen
        .
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     3. (Bot. & Med.) 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 Fraxinus  rotundifolia
        , the manna ashes of Southern Europe.
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     Note: Persian manna is the secretion of the camel's thorn
           (see Camel's thorn, under Camel); Tamarisk manna,
           that of the Tamarisk mannifera, a shrub of Western
           Asia; Australian, manna, that of certain species of
           eucalyptus; Brian[,c]on manna, that of the European
           larch.
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     Manna insect (Zool), a scale insect (Gossyparia  mannipara
        ), which causes the exudation of manna from the
        Tamarix tree in Arabia.
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  mannitol \man"ni*tol\, n. [Mannite + -ol.]
     1. (Chem.) A white crystalline hexose
        (HO.CH2.(CHOH)4.CH2.OH) of a sweet taste obtained from a
        so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash
        (Fraxinus ornus); -- called also mannite, and hydroxy  hexane
        . Cf. Dulcite. It is used in pharmacy as
        excipient and diluent for solids and liquids. It is also
        used as a food additive for anti-caking properties, or as
        a sweetener, and, illegally, to "cut" (dilute) illegal
        drugs such as cocaine or heroin.
  
     Syn: D-mannitol; manna sugar; cordycepic acid; Diosmol;
          Mannicol; Mannidex; Osmiktrol; Osmosal.
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fraxinus ornus - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Fraxinus ornus
      n 1: southern Mediterranean ash having fragrant white flowers in
           dense panicles and yielding manna [syn: manna ash,
           flowering ash, Fraxinus ornus]