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immortal
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The Woman Warrior
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Where the deer nibbled, I gathered the fungus, the fungus of immortality.†
Chpt 2 *

immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
In the warming water I put roots, nuts, and the fungus of immortality.†
Chpt 2
I brought the leaves to the old man and old woman, and they ate them for immortality.†
Chpt 2
They told the students that they would begin with a text as old as the Han empire, when the prescription for immortality had not yet been lost.†
Chpt 3
The emperor would saw off the explorers' heads if they returned without the herbs of immortality.†
Chpt 3

Definitions:

(1) (immortal)
living or existing forever

or:

someone famous throughout history

or:

someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.