in heathen antiquity, denotes the solid food of the gods, in contradistinction from the drink, which was called nectar. It had the appellation ambrosia, (compounded of the particle a- and ἀπό, immortals,) as being supposed to render those immortal who fed on it.

a genus of the pentandria order, belonging to the monocota class of plants. Of this genus five species are enumerated; but having no properties worthy of notice, we omit any farther account of them.