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Definitions of adonis in various dictionaries:

noun - any handsome young man

noun - annual or perennial herbs

noun - (Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone

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Possible Jeopardy Clues
Shakespeare said of this handsome mythological man, "hunting he lov'd, but love he laugh'd to scorn"
Wounded by Cupid's arrow, Venus fell in love with this handsome guy at 1st sight
In the painting seen here:Venus & him
A very handsome young man i sometimes called this, after the handsome youth loved by Aphrodite
In a poem by Shakespeare, Venus calls this handsome hunk "Thrice fairer than myself"
The name of this handsome youth loved by Aphrodite is now a synonym for any handsome young man
Aphrodite & Persephone both fell in love with this good-looking son of the Assyrian king Theias
This handsome young man loved by Aphrodite was killed by a wild boar
Possible Dictionary Clues
bAdonis definitionb. In classical mythology, an extremely beautiful boy who was loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Note: By extension, an bAdonisb is any handsome young man.
a very beautiful or sexually attractive young man:
A beautiful youth loved by both Aphrodite and Persephone. He was killed by a boar, but Zeus decreed that he should spend the winter of each year in the underworld with Persephone and the summer months with Aphrodite.
(Greek mythology) a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite, the goddess of love
any handsome young man
annual or perennial herbs
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Adonis, MISSOURI, UNITED STATES
Adonis, WEST VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES
Adonis description
Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddess Aphrodite in Greek mythology. In Ovid's first-century AD telling of the myth, he was conceived after Aphrodite cursed his mother Myrrha to lust after her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus. Myrrha had sex with her father in complete darkness for nine nights, but he discovered her identity and chased her with a sword. The gods transformed her into a myrrh tree and, in the form of a tree, she gave birth to Adonis. Aphrodite found the infant and gave him to be raised by Persephone, the queen of the Underworld. Adonis grew into an astonishingly handsome young man, causing Aphrodite and Persephone to feud over him, with Zeus eventually decreeing that Adonis would spend one third of the year in the Underworld with Persephone, one third of the year with Aphrodite, and the final third of the year with whomever he chose. Adonis chose to spend his final third of the year with Aphrodite.
* One day, Adonis was gored by a wild boar during a hunting trip and
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