adonis

adonis has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
• n.. A preeminently beautiful young man; a dandy.
• n.. A genus of plants of the family Ranunculaceae, containing the pheasant's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.
• n.. (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"
• n.. any handsome young man
• n.. annual or perennial herbs