单词 | ambrosia |
释义 | Word Frequency ambrosia(æmˈbrəʊzɪə) noun 1. classical mythology the food of the gods, said to bestow immortality Compare nectar (sense 2)2. anything particularly delightful to taste or smell 3. another name for beebread 4. any of various herbaceous plants constituting the genus Ambrosia, mostly native to America but widely naturalized: family Asteraceae (composites). The genus includes the ragweeds Derived forms ambrosial (amˈbrosial) or ambrosian (amˈbrosian) adjective ambrosially (amˈbrosially) adverb Word origin C16: via Latin from Greek: immortality, from ambrotos, from a-1 + brotos mortal |
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