Ambrosia (disambiguation)

Ambrosia (disambiguation)

Ambrosia is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods of Greek mythology.

Ambrosia may also refer to:

In mythology:
*Ambrosia, one of the Hyades of Greek mythology
*Ambrosia (neuter plural), referring to certain festivals in honour of Dionysus

In biology:
*"Ambrosia", a genus of flowering plants 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

In popular music:
*Ambrosia (band), a musical group formed in the Los Angeles area during the early 1970s
*"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

As the name of a business:
*Ambrosia Software, a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York
*Ambrosia, a British brand of dairy products

As a human first name:
*Ambrosia (more commonly known as Amber) is a given name for a female in English
*Ambrosia Anderson, professional basketball player of the WNBA
*Ambrosia "Amber" Moore, fictional character from "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "The Young and the Restless"

Miscellaneous:
*Ambrosia (fruit salad), a variation on the traditional fruit salad
*193 Ambrosia, a main belt asteroid
*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 (Quakeworld), a pseudoreligion spawned by a small DM community in the id Software video game "Quakeworld"
*Ambrosia, a fictional war torn nation in the imagination of the protagonist in the film Billy Liar


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