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AMBROSIA

\ambɹˈə͡ʊzi͡ə], \ambɹˈə‍ʊzi‍ə], \a_m_b_ɹ_ˈəʊ_z_iə]\

Definitions of AMBROSIA

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language

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(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
An unguent of the gods.
A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
An unguent of the gods.
A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

Anything exquisitely pleasing to taste or smell; in mythology, the food of the gods.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

Rag-weed, Roman wormwood, the flowering tops of Ambrosia artemisioefolia tonic and astringent; employed in eclectic practice in intermittents, diarrhea, hematuria, hemorrhoids, and various nervous states, in doses of gtt. 5-10 (0.3-0.6) of the specific preparation of 240 grains to the ounce of alcohol. The pollen causes hay fever.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

The fabled food of the gods, which conferred immortality on those who partook of it.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

The fabled food of the gods; a fragrant plant.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

The fabled food of the gods; delicious food.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

The fabled food of the gods which conferred immortality on whoever partook of it; anything very pleasing to the taste or smell.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

Said by the ancients to have been the food of the gods; whatever is pleasant to the taste or smell.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

Food which makes immortal, or the food of immortals. Food of the gods-Homer. See also, Chenopodium botrys.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

A genus of plants, bitter, stimulant, and styptic.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A genus of the Compositae, suborder Tubuliflorae or Ambrosiaceae.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

n. [German] The fabled food of the gods, which conferred eternal youth.

1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

The imaginary food of the gods; the name of a plant.

1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Sheridan

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