ambrosia vs tang

ambrosia

noun
  • Any food with an especially delicious flavour or fragrance. 

  • Any fungus of a number of species that insects such as ambrosia beetles carry as symbionts, "farming" them on poor-quality food such as wood, where they grow, providing food for the insect. 

  • A dessert made of shredded coconuts and tropical fruits such as pineapples and oranges; some recipes also include ingredients such as marshmallow and cream. 

  • Anything delightfully sweet and pleasing. 

  • The anointing-oil of the gods. 

  • The food of the gods, thought to confer immortality. 

  • A mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae. 

  • An annual herb historically used medicinally and in cooking, Dysphania botrys. 

tang

noun
  • A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. 

  • A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. 

  • A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang. 

  • A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part. 

  • Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma. 

  • sexual intercourse with a woman 

  • knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed) 

  • The vagina. 

  • The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened. 

  • A shuffleboard paddle. 

  • A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. 

  • The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock. 

  • Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle. 

  • The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle. 

verb
  • To make a ringing sound; to ring. 

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