Adonis

/əˈdɑnəs/

/əˈdɒnɪs/

Other forms: Adonises

Definitions of Adonis

1. 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”

   type of:

   daemon, demigod

   a person who is part mortal and part god
2. noun

   annual or perennial herbs
   synonyms: genus Adonis

   type of:

   magnoliid dicot genus

   genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms