Definition of Adones

Definition of Adones

Ado`nis, a beautiful youth beloved by Aphrodité (Venus), but mortally wounded by a boar and changed by her into a flower the colour of his blood, by sprinkling nectar on his body.

- Wikipedia

||A*do"nis (&adot;*dō"n&ibreve;s), n. [L., gr. Gr. 'A`dwnis.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

2. A preëminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

3. (Bot.) A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceæ, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
A beautiful man.

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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