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Ambrosia   /æmbrˈoʊʒə/   Listen
noun
ambrosia  n.  
1.
(Myth.)
(a)
The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
(b)
An unguent of the gods. "His dewy locks distilled ambrosia."
2.
A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
3.
Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
4.
(Zool.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidae believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows.
5.
A dessert made from shredded coconuts and oranges, sometimes including other ingredients such as marshmallow.





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"Ambrosia" Quotes from Famous Books



... once more came to the relief of her son. While Iapis was fomenting the wound with water, the goddess, unseen, dipped into the vessel a branch of dit'ta-ny, a plant famous for its healing qualities. At the same time she injected celestial ambrosia, and juice of the ...
— Story of Aeneas • Michael Clarke
... vanish, orders the swift Hours to yoke the horses. The Goddesses speedily perform his commands, and lead forth the steeds from the lofty stalls, snorting forth flames, and filled with the juice of Ambrosia; and {then} they put ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... common insects attacking the wood of living trees are the oak timber worm, the chestnut timber worm, carpenter worms, ambrosia beetles, the locust borer, turpentine beetles and turpentine borers, and the ...
— The Mechanical Properties of Wood • Samuel J. Record
... of course! That is why I advise you to learn. Fugh! What a smell this gentleman has left behind him!" Paklin sniffed the air. "The very ambrosia that the governor's wife longed for ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev
... herself Three times more noble than three score of men, She sees herself in every woman else, And so she wears her error like a crown To blind the truth and me: for her, and her, Hebes are they to hand ambrosia, mix The nectar; but—ah she—whene'er she moves The Samian Here rises and she speaks A Memnon smitten with ...
— The Princess • Alfred Lord Tennyson


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