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Ambrosia is food or drink that tastes so good you want to call it food of the gods. People say it when a meal, a fruit, or a drink is almost too delicious. Though actually, in the old Greek stories ambrosia is what the gods eat, and that is why they never die; nectar is what they drink. English borrowed the name as praise for anything that tastes heavenly. In the United States, Ambrosia is also a sweet fruit salad — often orange, coconut, and marshmallow — named that way because people thought it tasted like heaven in a bowl.
仙饌；人間極品（神話裡眾神的食物；美式也指加椰子絲、棉花糖的水果沙拉）
組成From Latin ambrosia (food of the gods), from Greek ambrosía (immortality), from ámbrotos (immortal): a- (not) + brotós (mortal).
同家族的字
- ambrosialthe adjective: tasting or smelling heavenly
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ambrosianoun/æmˈbɹoʊʒə/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
- He had a most intense admiration of female loveliness, and looked upon woman as a kind of super-angelic being, whose food should be the ambrosiæ and nectar of the gods, and whose garments the spotless white of vestal purity.
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe anointing-oil of the gods.
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Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
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Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing.
- A favorite. It’s refreshing now and will evolve into golden ambrosia with age. […] The dessert wines of the Loire Valley and AJsace also deserve recognition. From the Anjou area of the Loire come the ambrosiae of Savennières, Bonnezeaux, and Quarts de Chaume.
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An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys.
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A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.
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Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect.
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A dessert originating in the Southern United States made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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A plant of the genus Ambrosia.
- Their disease does not appear before August. At this time, throughout the entire United States one could say, not only in every field, in every meadow and in every forest, but even in the largest cities, there blooms the ambrosiæ, which are commonly known as ragweed; […]
- Fig. 1.—Spiculated pollens of ragweeds (ambrosias) low in protein. […] In the cocklebur (Xanthium americanum) and the rough wild elder (Iva ciliata), the spicules are shorter, being 0.7 and 0.5 microns, and the reaction is proportionately less active than with the ragweeds (ambrosias). […] While the grass pollens have so light a coat that they are frequently crushed in the ordinary process of mounting, the ragweed (ambrosias) pollen grains resist pressure between two glass slides carried to the point of crushing the glass.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。