ambrosia
Noun
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A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae (synset 114798251)
hypernym: composition - a mixture of ingredientssynonym: beebread
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Any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma (synset 111939916)
hypernym: weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plantshyponym:
- 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
member meronym: genus ambrosia - comprising the ragweeds; in some classification considered the type genus of a separate family Ambrosiaceaesynonym: bitterweed, ragweed - Fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut (synset 107626111)
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(classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods;
Mortals who ate it became immortal (synset 107625904)domain category: classical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greekssynonym: nectar
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