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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("ambrosia" is a kind of...):

composition (a mixture of ingredients)

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