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.
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.
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