Category:Ambrosia

Am*bro"sia, n. Etym: [L. ambrosia, Gr. mrita, L. mortuus, dead, and to E. mortal.]

1. A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. Spenser.

2. Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.