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Vocabulary
Ambrosial
This stately deciduous tree (lime tree) attracts myriad bees in June and July to its ambrosial hanging clusters of yellow blossoms, known as bracts.
--- Does "ambrosial" above mean something like "divine"?
--- Does "ambrosial" above mean something like "divine"?
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Ambrosia was the food and nectar was the drink of the ancient Greek gods therefore the words have come to mean incomparably delicious.
- Ambrosia was the food and nectar was the drink of the ancient Greek gods therefore the words have come to mean incomparably delicious.
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Ambrosia was the food and nectar was the drink of the ancient Greek gods therefore the words have come to mean incomparably delicious.
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Hi
But here "ambrosial" defines "hanging", I think. So it would mean that they hang in an amrosial (divine) way. That's how I understand it.
But here "ambrosial" defines "hanging", I think. So it would mean that they hang in an amrosial (divine) way. That's how I understand it.
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Yes, ambrosial defines hanging in this quote but it is wrong. Read it as "to its beautiful hanging clusters of yellow blossoms, known as bracts." If you ask me ambrosial has been misused in this quotation, a yellow blossom, obviously nectar (in its modern sense) to a bee is an essential food but there is no way that blossom is ambrosial in the same way that, say, good caviar or ot
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