am|bro|sia

am|bro|sia
am|bro|sia «am BROH zhuh», noun.
1. Greek and Roman Mythology. the food of the gods. It was the substance that gave immortality.
2. Figurative. something especially pleasing to taste or smell.
3. a dessert of grated coconut meat and sliced oranges and, sometimes, sliced bananas.
4. = beebread. (Cf. ↑beebread)
5. any one of various plants of a genus of weeds allied to wormwood; ragweed.
6. a fungus cultivated as a food by certain burrowing beetles.
╂[< Latin ambrosia < Greek ambrosíā < ámbrotos of the gods < a- not + brotós mortal]

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