Usually means: Food of the Greek gods.
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  1. ambrosia: Merriam-Webster
  2. ambrosia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ambrosia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ambrosia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ambrosia: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ambrosia, ambrosia: Wordnik
  7. ambrosia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ambrosia: Wiktionary
  9. ambrosia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ambrosia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ambrosia: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ambrosia: Dictionary.com
  13. ambrosia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ambrosia (album), Ambrosia (apple), Ambrosia (band), Ambrosia (disambiguation), Ambrosia (food), Ambrosia (food brand), Ambrosia (fruit salad), Ambrosia (plant), Ambrosia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ambrosia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ambrosia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ambrosia: Rhymezone
  18. Ambrosia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ambrosia: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ambrosia: FreeDictionary.org
  21. ambrosia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ambrosia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Ambrosia: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. ambrosia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. ambrosia: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambrosia: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

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  1. ambrosia: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ambrosia (genus), ambrosia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ambrosia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. Ambrosia (genus): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambrosia: A Word A Day
  2. ambrosia: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambrosia: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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  1. ambrosia: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ambrosial as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
noun:  (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) The anointing-oil of the gods.
noun:  Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
noun:  Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing.
noun:  An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
noun:  A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
noun:  Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.
noun:  A dessert originating in the Southern United States made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.
noun:  A plant of the genus Ambrosia.

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