A*do"nis (#), n. [L., gr. Gr. .]
1. Gr. Myth.
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. Bot.
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.
© Webster 1913.