Adonis

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

II. Adonis ·noun A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

III. Adonis ·noun A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis);

— named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

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