ambrosia

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ambrosia (enc)

Noun	1.	ambrosia - a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae beebread composition - a mixture of ingredients
	2.	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 bitterweed, ragweed genus Ambrosia - comprising the ragweeds; in some classification considered the type genus of a separate family Ambrosiaceae 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 3-cleft or 5-cleft Ambrosia psilostachya, perennial ragweed, western ragweed - coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
	3.	ambrosia - fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut afters, dessert, sweet - a dish served as the last course of a meal
	4.	ambrosia - (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal nectar dainty, goody, kickshaw, treat, delicacy - something considered choice to eat classical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Roman together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks

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