AMBROSIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does ambrosia mean?
• AMBROSIA (noun)
The noun AMBROSIA has 4 senses:
1. a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
2. any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
3. fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
4. (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
Familiarity information: AMBROSIA used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• AMBROSIA (noun)
Meaning:
A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
ambrosia; beebread
Hypernyms ("ambrosia" is a kind of...):
composition (a mixture of ingredients)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
ambrosia; bitterweed; ragweed
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)
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)
Meaning:
(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
nectar; ambrosia
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)
