ambrosia

• ⇰ The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
• ⇰ 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.
• ⇰ The food of certain small bark beetles, family <fam>Scolytid&aelig;</fam> believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows.
• ⇰ A dessert made from shredded coconuts and oranges, sometimes including other ingredients such as marshmallow.