Index of English words, starting with "am"

(1) - Ambrosia (n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
(2) - Ambrosia (n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
(3) - Ambrosia (n.) An unguent of the gods.
(4) - Ambrosia (n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

(1) - Ambrosial (a.) Divinely excellent or beautiful.
(2) - Ambrosial (a.) Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.

(1) - Ambrosially (adv.) After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.

(1) - Ambulacral (a.) Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

(1) - Ambulacrum (n.) One of the suckers on the feet of mites.
(2) - Ambulacrum (n.) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.