adonis Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun any handsome young man
noun annual or perennial herbs
genus Adonis.
noun (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

L., gr. Gr. .

(Gr. Myth.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
A preëminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
(Bot.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.