Ambrosia


(n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.


(n.) An unguent of the gods.


(n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.


(n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.


(n.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows.



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Ambrose   Ambrosia   Ambrosia beetle   Ambrosiac   Ambrosial   Ambrosially   Ambrosian   Ambrosin   Ambrotype   Cambro-Briton  


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