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1. A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
2. A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
3. <botany> A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
Origin: L, gr. Gr.
(01 Mar 1998)
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