ambros-, ambro-, ambrot- +

(Greek: food of the gods that gave immortality; immortal, divine, excellent)


ambrosia
1. In Greek and Roman mythology, the food or drink of the gods thought to bestow immortality.
2. Something especially delicious to taste or smell.
3. A fruit dessert made of oranges and shredded coconut and sometimes pineapple.
4. Etymology: borrowed perhaps through Middle French ambroysie, or directly from Latin ambrosia, from Greek ambrosia, feminine of ambrosios of the immortals; that is, gods, from ambrotos, "immortal" (a-, "not" + Greek brotos, "mortal" [from earlier mrotos] + -ia, a suffix that forms nouns).
ambrosiac
The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality; now, a dessert consisting primarily of oranges and flaked coconut.
ambrosial
1. Suggestive of ambrosia; fragrant or delicious.
2. Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially, delicious or fragrant.
3. Of or worthy of the gods; divine.
ambrosially
1. Suggestive of ambrosia; fragrant or delicious.
2. A reference to being worthy of the gods; divine.
ambrosin
A chemical constituent of ragweed pollen that is related to absinthin.
ambrotype (s), ambrotypes (pl)
1. An early type of photograph made by imaging a negative on glass backed by a dark surface.
2. A picture taken on a place of prepared glass, in which the lights are represented in silver, and the shades are produced by a dark background visible through the unsilvered portions of the glass.
3. Etymology: from Greek ambrotos, "immortal".

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