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Adonis Common

Adonis has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any handsome young man

2

annual or perennial herbs

3

(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"

4

A beautiful man.

Proper Noun
1

A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
man magnoliid dicot genus daemon
Rhyming Words
nis anis enis unis panis funis ennis ranis lenis tanis omnis kunis annis dinis yanis denis innis minis ornis manis
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