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