Ambrosia (disambiguation)
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Ambrosia is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods of Greek mythology.
Ambrosia may also refer to:
Mythology
- Ambrosia, one of the Hyades of Greek mythology
- Ambrosia (neuter plural), referring to certain festivals in honour of Dionysus
Biology
- Ambrosia (plant), a genus of flowering plants in the Asteraceae commonly known as ragweed
- Ambrosia fungi
- Ambrosia beetle, beetles which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi
- Ambrosia (apple), a cultivar of apple
- Ambrosia, a type of sweet corn seed
- Bee bread
Music
- Ambrosia (band), a musical group formed in the Los Angeles area during the early 1970s
- Ambrosia (album), the debut album of the band Ambrosia
- "Ambrosia Drunk", the title of a track on the Surprise Me Mr. Davis album by The Slip and Nathan Moore of ThaMuseMeant
- Title of a song by Alesana
Business
- Ambrosia Software, a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York
- Ambrosia (food brand), a British brand of dairy products
Name
- Ambrosia (more commonly known as Amber) is a given name for a female in English
- Ambrosia Anderson (born 1984), professional basketball player of the WNBA
- Ambrosia "Amber" Moore, fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless
Other uses
- Ambrosia (fruit salad), a variation on the traditional fruit salad
- 193 Ambrosia, a main belt asteroid
- Golden Ambrosian Republic, 1447-1450
- Ambrosia, West Virginia
- Ambrosia, a fictional alcoholic beverage in the television series Battlestar Galactica
- Ambrosia, a fictional vaccine to the pandemic known as the "Gray Death" in the computer game Deus Ex
- Ambrosia (Ultima), a fictional lost continent in the Ultima series of computer games
- Ambrosia, a fictional war torn nation in the imagination of the protagonist in the film Billy Liar
- Ambrosia, a fictional lost kingdom in the film Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
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