ambrosia : Idioms & Phrases


ambrosia artemisiifolia

  • noun annual weed with finely divided foliage and spikes of green flowers; common in North America; introduced elsewhere accidentally
    common ragweed.
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ambrosia psilostachya

  • noun coarse perennial ragweed with creeping roots of dry barren lands of southwestern United States and Mexico
    western ragweed; perennial ragweed.
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ambrosia trifida

  • noun a coarse annual with some leaves deeply and palmately three-cleft or five-cleft
    great ragweed.
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genus ambrosia

  • noun comprising the ragweeds; in some classification considered the type genus of a separate family Ambrosiaceae
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