Ambrosia is the food (sometimes the drink) of the gods of Greek mythology.
It may also refer to:
Food
- Ambrosia (apple), a cultivar
- Ambrosia, a type of sweet maize
- Ambrosia (fruit salad), made with coconut and marshmallow
Arts and entertainment
Fictional entities
- Ambrosia (Ultima), a fictional lost continent in the Ultima series of computer games
- Ambrosia, a fictional alcoholic beverage in the television series Battlestar Galactica
- Ambrosia, a fictional war-torn nation in the imagination of the protagonist in the film Billy Liar
- Ambrosia, a fictional vaccine to the pandemic known as the "Gray Death" in the computer game Deus Ex
- Ambrosia, a fictional lost kingdom in the film Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
- Ambrosia, a fictional drug in the novel Library of Souls
- Ambrosia Moore, birth name of the fictional character Amber Moore from The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless
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", a song by Alesana
Biology
- Ambrosia (plant), a genus of flowering plants in the Asteraceae commonly known as ragweed
- Ambrosia beetle, beetles which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi
- Ambrosia fungi
- Bee bread, also known as ambrosia or bee pollen
People
- Ambrosia Anderson (born 1984), American basketball player
- Ambrosia Malone (born 1998), Australian field hockey player
- Ambrosia María Serrano y Rodriguez (1836–1875), Mexican clergyman and bishop
- Ambrosia Tønnesen (1859–1948), Norwegian sculptor
Places
- Ambrosia, West Virginia, US, an unincorporated community
- 193 Ambrosia, a main belt asteroid
In business
- Ambrosia (food brand), a UK brand
- Ambrosia Software, an American software company
Other uses
- Ambrosia (Hyade), a nymph in Greek mythology
- Ambrosia (neuter plural), certain festivals in honour of Dionysus
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