ambrosia
Noun
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is a type of: composition - a mixture of ingredientssame as: beebread
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is a type of: weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plantssubtypes:
- ambrosia artemisiifolia, common ragweed - annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally
- ambrosia trifida, great ragweed - a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft
- ambrosia psilostachya, perennial ragweed, western ragweed - coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico
belongs to: genus ambrosia - comprising the ragweeds; in some classification considered the type genus of a separate family Ambrosiaceaesame as: bitterweed, ragweed -
referred to in: classical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greekssame as: nectar
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