Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adonis

3 senses of adonis

Sense 1
adonis -- (any handsome young man)
       => man, adult male -- (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus")

Sense 2
Adonis, genus Adonis -- (annual or perennial herbs)
       => magnoliid dicot genus -- (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Sense 3
Adonis -- ((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")
       => daemon, demigod -- (a person who is part mortal and part god)