ambrosia

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Greek & Roman Mythology The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
2. n. Something with an especially delicious flavor or fragrance.
3. n. A dessert containing primarily oranges and flaked coconut.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In Gr. legend, a celestial substance, capable of imparting immortality, commonly represented as the food of the gods, but sometimes as their drink, and also as a richly perfumed unguent; hence, in literature, anything comparable in character to either of these conceptions.
2. n. A genus of widely distributed coarse annual weeds, of the natural order Compositæ, chiefly American, and generally known as ragweed. A. artemisiæfolia is also called Roman wormwood or hogweed.
3. n. The food of certain wood-boring beetles, consisting of various hyphomycetous fungi found associated with the beetles in their galleries, and said by some authors to be propagated by them, each species of beetle using a particular species of fungus.

Wiktionary

1. n. Greek mythology, Roman mythology The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality.
2. n. Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance.
3. n. A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
2. n. An unguent of the gods.
3. n. A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
4. n. Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
5. n. (Zoöl.) The food of certain small bark beetles, family Scolytidæ believed to be fungi cultivated by the beetles in their burrows.
6. n. A dessert made from shredded coconuts and oranges, sometimes including other ingredients such as marshmallow.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma
2. n. (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
3. n. fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut
4. n. a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae