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AMBROSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
Synonyms:
ambrosia; nectar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("ambrosia" is a kind of...):
dainty; delicacy; goody; kickshaw; treat (something considered choice to eat)
Domain category:
classical mythology (the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks)
Derivation:
ambrosial (worthy of the gods)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("ambrosia" is a kind of...):
afters; dessert; sweet (a dish served as the last course of a meal)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
Synonyms:
ambrosia; bitterweed; ragweed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ambrosia" is a kind of...):
weed (any plant that crowds out cultivated plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ambrosia"):
Ambrosia artemisiifolia; common ragweed (annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally)
Ambrosia trifida; great ragweed (a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft)
Ambrosia psilostachya; perennial ragweed; western ragweed (coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico)
Holonyms ("ambrosia" is a member of...):
genus Ambrosia (comprising the ragweeds; in some classification considered the type genus of a separate family Ambrosiaceae)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
Synonyms:
ambrosia; beebread
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ambrosia" is a kind of...):
composition (a mixture of ingredients)