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ambrozja - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Inherited from Old Polish ambrozyja.

ambrozja f (related adjective ambrozyjski or (Middle Polish) ambrozyjowy)

  1. (Greek mythology) ambrosia (food of the gods, thought to confer immortality)
    boska ambrozjagodly ambrosia/ambrosia of the gods
    pić ambrozjęto drink ambrosia
  2. (literary) ambrosia (any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance)
    Synonyms: przysmak, smakołyk
    smak ambrozjitaste of ambrosia
  3. ragweed (any plant of the genus Ambrosia)
    pyłek ambrozjiragweed pollen
  4. (ecology, entomology, mycology) symbiotic coaction of fungi imperfecti or ascomycetes (mainly of the genera Monilia, Cephalosporium, and Tuberculariella) with some insects or their larvae (e.g. bark beetles, termites, ants, some beetles, gall wasps) that parasitize the tissues of land plants