ambrosia

The Kentucky volunteers also have to watch over the trees throughout the year to protect them from the destructive ambrosia beetles, whose larvae would quickly kill half of the orchard if left unchecked.

Mostly a holiday treat for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas, ambrosia of yore was a humble delight.

The zombie is ambrosia for the mind of the horror-media buff: it possesses the visual and visceral spectacle of necrosis, the ever-present symbology of death, the excitement of the interminably strange.

He scooped spoonfuls of ambrosia, Mama’s fruit salad, into his mouth.

There is no ambrosia here, just bad coffee.