ambrosia

am·bro·sia

A0245500 (ăm-brō′zhə, -zhē-ə)n.1. Greek & Roman Mythology The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.2. Something with an especially delicious flavor or fragrance.3. A dessert of mixed fruits, usually including oranges and pineapple, combined with flaked coconut and often marshmallows.

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[Latin, from Greek ambrosiā, from ambrotos, immortal, immortalizing; see mer- in Indo-European roots.]

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am·bro′sial (ăm-brō′zhəl, -zhē-əl) adj.am·bro′sial·ly adv.

ambrosia

(æmˈbrəʊzɪə) n1. (Classical Myth & Legend) classical myth the food of the gods, said to bestow immortality. Compare nectar²2. anything particularly delightful to taste or smell3. (Zoology) another name for beebread4. (Plants) any of various herbaceous plants constituting the genus Ambrosia, mostly native to America but widely naturalized: family Asteraceae (composites). The genus includes the ragweeds[C16: via Latin from Greek: immortality, from ambrotos, from a-¹ + brotos mortal] amˈbrosial, amˈbrosian adj amˈbrosially adv

am•bro•sia

(æmˈbroʊ ʒə)

n. 1. the food of the ancient Greek and Roman gods, ensuring their immortality. 2. something especially delicious to taste or smell. 3. a dessert of oranges, shredded coconut, and often pineapple. [1545–55; < Latin < Greek: immortality, food of the gods, n. use of feminine of ambrósios=a- a-⁶ + -mbrosios, comb. form of brotōs mortal] am•bro′sial, adj.

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Noun	1.	ambrosia - a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvaebeebreadcomposition - a mixture of ingredients
	2.	ambrosia - any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthmabitterweed, ragweedgenus Ambrosia - comprising the ragweeds; in some classification considered the type genus of a separate family AmbrosiaceaeAmbrosia artemisiifolia, common ragweed - annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentallyAmbrosia trifida, great ragweed - a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleftAmbrosia psilostachya, perennial ragweed, western ragweed - coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexicoweed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
	3.	ambrosia - fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconutafters, dessert, sweet - a dish served as the last course of a meal
	4.	ambrosia - (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortalnectardainty, goody, kickshaw, treat, delicacy - something considered choice to eatclassical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks

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