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