Associations to the word «Ambrosia»

Wiktionary

AMBROSIA, noun. (Greek mythology) (Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
AMBROSIA, noun. Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
AMBROSIA, noun. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
AMBROSIA, noun. A dessert made from shredded coconuts and oranges, sometimes including other ingredients such as marshmallow.
AMBROSIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae   — the ragweeds.

Dictionary definition

AMBROSIA, noun. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
AMBROSIA, noun. 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, noun. Fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut.
AMBROSIA, noun. (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca