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noun

ambrosia n.

(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."

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

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

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

A dessert made from shredded coconuts and oranges, sometimes including other ingredients such as marshmallow.

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Etymology of 'Ambrosia'

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"Ambrosia" Quotes from Famous Books

... application to religious emblems, numismatics, heraldry, painting, &c. Two short extracts will suffice here:—"Le lis blanc, surnomme la fleur des fleurs, les delices de Venus, la Rose de Junon, qu'Anguillara designa sous le nom d'Ambrosia, probablement a cause de son parfum suivant, et pent etre aussi de sa soidisante divine origine, se place tout naturellement a le tete de ce groupe splendide." "C'est le Lis classique, par excellence, et en meme temps le plus ...

— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

... Captain Maynard gallantly, "I am already more than reconciled to my wound. Anything that you prepare for me will be ambrosia." ...

— Miss Lou • E. P. Roe

... one of the shorter poems, written when the author was only fourteen. There is a little dimness in the filling up, but the grace and symmetry of the outline are such as few poets ever attain. There is a smack of ambrosia about it. ...

— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell

... bear her as thy bride over the dark sea, and place her in golden halls on the far-off Libyan land. There she shall have a home rich in every fruit that may grow up from the earth; and there shall thy son Aristaios be born, on whose lips the bright Horai shall shed nectar and ambrosia, so that he may not come under the doom of ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... Paradise, comes daily to bring three pints of milk from some ambrosial cow; occasionally, also, he makes an offering of mortal flowers. Mr. Emerson comes sometimes, and has been feasted on our nectar and ambrosia. Mr. Thoreau has twice listened to the music of the spheres, which, for our private convenience, we have packed into a musical-box. E. H———, who is much more at home among spirits than among fleshly bodies, came hither a few times merely ...

— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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