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:

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 Custard

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