manna lichen

1. 1.

   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

   Broaderlecanora

Questions about manna lichen

What does manna lichen mean?

manna lichen means "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".

Is manna lichen a common word?

manna lichen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.