Ambrosia (disambiguation)

Ambrosia is the food (sometimes the drink) of the gods of Greek mythology.

It may also refer to:

Mythology

• Ambrosia, one of the Hyades of Greek mythology
• Ambrosia (neuter plural), certain festivals in honour of Dionysus

Food

• Ambrosia (apple) cultivar
• Ambrosia, a type of sweet maize
• Ambrosia (fruit salad), made with coconut and marshmallow
• Ambrosia (food brand), selling dairy products in the UK

Arts, entertainment, and media

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, the 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
• "Ambrosia Drunk", a track on the Surprise Me Mr. Davis album by The Slip and Nathan Moore of ThaMuseMeant

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

Brands and enterprises

• Ambrosia Software, a software company in Rochester, New York, US

People

• Ambrosia, a given name for a female
  • Ambrosia Anderson (born 1984), a professional basketball player of the WNBA
  • Ambrosia Tønnesen (1859-1948), Norwegian sculptor
  • Ambrosia Moore (see Fictional entities above)

Places

• Ambrosia, West Virginia
• Golden Ambrosian Republic, 1447-1450
• 193 Ambrosia, a main belt asteroid