Definition of ambrosia
Nouns
a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae
- Synonyms:
- beebread
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composition
a mixture of ingredients
any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
- Synonyms:
- bitterweed, ragweed
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Ambrosia artemisiifolia, common ragweed
annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally
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Ambrosia trifida, great ragweed
a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft
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Ambrosia psilostachya, perennial ragweed, western ragweed
coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico
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weed
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
Vocabulary Lists for ambrosia
Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" Chapters 1-10 »(412 words)
Vocabulary study list for Charlotte Bronte's "Jane...
- habituate
- neutralised
- coherently
- corrode
- predispose
Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" Chapters 1-10 »(164 words)
Vocabulary study list for Harper Lee's "To Kill a...
- nauseate
- asinine
- delete
- douse
- crumple