[a. Fr. ambroise:—L. ambrosia (see next.)]

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  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.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., Ambrose herbe, Ambrosia, Salvia silvestris.

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1530.  Palsgr., 194/1. Ambrose, an herbe ache champestre.

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1548.  Turner, Plant Names (1881), 76. Stachys semeth to Gesner to be the herbe that we call in English Ambrose.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, 253. It is called in English woodde Sage, wild Sage, and Ambros.

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1853.  N. & Q., Ser. I. VIII. 36/2. Herb Ambrose has a Greek origin, and is not indebted to the saint of that name.

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  † 2.  The mythical AMBROSIA. Obs.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., III. ii. (1638), 482 (T.).

        At first Ambrose it selfe was not sweeter,
At last black Hellebor was not so bitter.

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