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am·bro·sia
\amˈbrōzh(ē)ə, aam-, attrib (ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷( ̷ ̷) ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: Latin, from Greek, literally, immortality, from ambrotos immortal (from a- a- (II) + — assumed — Greek mbrotos mortal — whence Greek brotos) + -ia — more at murder
1. -s
a. : the food of the Greek and Roman gods
< a table where the heaped ambrosia lay — W.C.Bryant >
b. : the ointment or perfume of the gods
< his dewy locks distilled ambrosia — John Milton >
2. -s : something extremely pleasing to taste or smell
< with sweet ambrosia all besprinkled — Edmund Spenser >
3. capitalized [New Latin, from Latin] : a genus of mostly American monoecious herbs (family Compositae) distinguished by the united involucre of the staminate heads of flowers and by the single row of spines on the involucre of the pistillate heads — see ragweed
4. -s : jerusalem oak 1
5. -s : a dessert of a fruit or of mixed fruits topped with shredded coconut
6. -s : a moderate reddish brown that is yellower and paler than roan and paler than mahogany |