Ambrosia (disambiguation) explained

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