| 单词 | ambrosia |
| 释义 | ambrosia (once / 5639 pages) 1n 2n In Greek mythology, ambrosia was the food of the gods. At a picnic, ambrosia is a dessert made with oranges and shredded coconut. While the former bestowed immortality on all who ate it, the latter tastes very refreshing after fried chicken and potato salad. In the Odyssey and the Iliad, Homer uses the word ambrosia for three things: the food of the Olympians, a salve used to treat corpses, and as a perfume to cover up the smell of uncured seal skins. Some scholars have identified ambrosia as honey while others feel that a type of hallucinogenic mushroom was meant in the myths. Regardless of all this confusion, the word is now used metaphorically to mean anything so fragrant, so delicious that it seems divine — including a popular orange-and-coconut confection. WORD FAMILYambrosia: ambrosial+/ambrosial: ambrosially USAGE EXAMPLESIs Deb going to show up with that big bowl of ambrosia again? Los Angeles Times(Nov 24, 2016) In the Ambrosia trial, 600 participants will each receive a liter-and-a-half of blood from someone under 25 over the course of a couple days. Slate(Aug 04, 2016) His company, Ambrosia in Monterey, California, plans to charge participants $8000 for lab tests and a one-time treatment with young plasma. Science Magazine(Aug 01, 2016) 1 1n (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal Syn|Hyper nectar dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat something considered choice to eat 2n fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut Hyper afters, dessert, sweet a dish served as the last course of a meal 3n a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae 2Syn|Hyper beebread composition a mixture of ingredients n any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma Syn|Hypo|Hyper bitterweed, ragweed Ambrosia artemisiifolia, common ragweed annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally Ambrosia trifida, great ragweeda coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft Ambrosia psilostachya, perennial ragweed, western ragweedcoarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico weed any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
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