ambrosia

ambrosia has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
• n.. An unguent of the gods.
• n.. A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
• n.. Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
• n.. (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
• n.. fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
• n.. any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
• n.. a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae