Noun
- 1. adonis, man, adult male
- usage: any handsome young man
- 2. Adonis, genus Adonis, magnoliid dicot genus
- usage: annual or perennial herbs
- 3. Adonis, daemon, demigod
- usage: (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone; "when Adonis died Zeus decreed that he should spend winters in the underworld with Persephone and spend summers with Aphrodite"
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