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   ambrosia

   /amˈbrəʊzɪə/

   noun

   • 1. the food of the gods.
   • ▪ something very pleasing to taste or smell: "the tea was ambrosia after the slop I'd been suffering"
   • 2. a fungal product used as food by ambrosia beetles.
   • 3. another term for bee bread

   Word Origin mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek, ‘elixir of life’, from ambrotos ‘immortal’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. ambrosial adjective
   • 2. ambrosian adjective

   Scrabble Points: 12

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