ambrosia

1. 1.

   a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae

   Synonymsbeebread

   Broadercomposition
2. 2.

   any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma

   Synonymsragweedbitterweed

   Broaderweed

   Narrowercommon ragweedgreat ragweedwestern ragweed

   Part ofgenus Ambrosia
3. 3.

   fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut

   Broaderdessert
4. 4.

   (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal

   Synonymsnectar

   Broaderdainty

   classical mythology

Other forms of ambrosia

plural

ambrosias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ambrosia

What does ambrosia mean?

ambrosia means "a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ambrosia?

ambrosia has 3 syllables: am-bro-sia. The stress falls on "bro". In IPA it is /æmˈbɹoʊʒə/.

What is another word for ambrosia?

Close synonyms include beebread, ragweed, bitterweed, nectar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ambrosia a common word?

ambrosia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.