| ambrosia | 1. The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it. An unguent of the gods. "His dewy locks distilled ambrosia." (Milton) 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. Origin: L. Ambrosia, Gr, properly fem. Of, fr. Immortal, divine; priv. + mortal (because it was supposed to confer immortality on those who partook of it). Stands for, akin to Skr. Mrita, L. Mortuus, dead, and to E. Mortal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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beebread: a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae ragweed: any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
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In ancient mythology, Ambrosia (Greek ) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods. The word has generally been derived from Greek a- ("not") and mbrotos ("mortal"); hence the food or drink of the immortals. The classical scholar Arthur Woollgar Verrall, however, denied that there is any clear example in which the word ambrosios necessarily means immortal, and preferred to explain it as "fragrant," a sense which is always suitable. ...
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Food of the Gods. Ambrosia was also given in the form of an offering to Zeus Ktesios composed of water, oil, and fruit. From ambrotos meaning "immortal".
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(a,[ji.?6<na), festivals observed in Greece, in honour of Dionysus, which seem to have derived their name from the luxuries of the table, or from the indulgence of drinking. According to Tzetzes on Hesiod (Op. et D. v. 504) these festivals were solemnized in the month of Lenaeon, during the vintage. (Etym. M. sv Arjvaitbv, p. 564. 7. ; GEW Schneider, Ueber das Attisclie Theater- wesen, p. 43 ; KF Hermann, Lelirb. d. gottesdienstl. Alterth. d. GriccJim, ?58. n. 7.) [LS]
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A dessert of chilled fruits combined with coconut. Oranges and bananas are the most common fruits used. Ambrosia may also be served as a salad.
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| ambrosia | (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods |
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| ambrosia | fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut |
| ambrosia | any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma |
| ambrosia | a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae |
| ambrosia | annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers |
| ambrosia | coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico |
| ambrosia | a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately 3-cleft or 5-cleft |
| ambrosia | in some classifications considered a separate family comprising a subgroup of the Compositae including the ragweeds |
| ambrosia | worthy of the gods |
| ambrosia | extremely pleasing to the taste |
| ambrosia | worthy of the gods |
| ambrosia | extremely pleasing to the taste |
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