ambrose
(ˈæmbrəʊz)
[a. Fr. ambroise:—L. ambrosia (see next.)]
1. Herb. An English plant: with some the Wood Sage (Teucrium Scorodonia); with others, Chenopodium Botrys; with both of which Teucrium Botrys seems to have been in name confused.
| 1440 Promp. Parv., Ambrose herbe, Ambrosia, Salvia silvestris. 1530 Palsgr. 194/1 Ambrose, an herbe ache champestre. 1548 Turner Plant Names (1881) 76 Stachys semeth to Gesner to be the herbe that we call in English Ambrose. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 253 It is called in English woodde Sage, wild Sage, and Ambros. 1853 N. & Q. Ser. i. VIII. 36/2 Herb Ambrose has a Greek origin, and is not indebted to the saint of that name. |
† 2. The mythical ambrosia. Obs.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. (T.) Ambrose it selfe was not sweeter. |