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AMBROSIA n. 4 definitions

An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton.

AMBROSIA BEETLE n.

A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.

Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious. [R.]"Ambrosiac odors." B. Jonson.

AMBROSIAL a. 2 definitions

Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. "Ambrosial food." "Ambrosial fragrance." Milton.

AMBROSIALLY adv.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.

AMBROSIAN a. 2 definitions

Ambrosial. [R.] . Jonson.

A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3. Turner.

Immorality; also, the nectar conferring immortality. -- a. Ambrosial; immortal.

A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiæfolia); Roman worm wood. Gray.

; manner of speaking; a canting tone. [R.] His strange face, his strange chant. Macaulay. Ambrosian chant, See under Ambrosian. Chant royal Etym: [F.], in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. -- each of these six parts ending with a common refrain. -- Grego…

Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew. Dewy sleep ambrosial. Cowper.

ilk or water. There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.

Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton.

A common weed (Ambrosia artemisiæge). See Ambrosia, 3.

The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.

A common American composite weed (Ambrosia artemisiæfolia) with finely divided leaves; hogweed. Great ragweed, a coarse American herb (Ambrosia trifida), with rough three-lobed opposite leaves.

the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk. With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial. prior.

or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc. Blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold. Milton.

that beareth gall and wormwood. Deut. xxix. 18. Roman wormwood (Bot.), an American weed (Ambrosia artemisiæfolia); hogweed. -- Tree wormwood (Bot.), a species of Artemisia (probably Artemisia variabilis) with woody stems. -- Wormwood hare (Zoöl.), a variety of the common hare (Lepus timidus); -- so named from its co…