Bot. [mod. L. (Rauwolf, 1537), ad. Arab. al-ḥāj, used by Avicenna.] A genus of leguminous plants, some of which produce a kind of manna.
1769. Sir J. Hill, Fam. Herb. (1812), 17. There is a kind more rare, called Persian manna; this is produced by the shrub called alhagi.
1847. Craig, s.v., The manna of this country … has nothing to do with Moor’s Alhagi or Hebrew manna.
