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Adonis is a hero in Greek mythology.

Contents

• Places
• People with the name
• Surname
• Given name
• Fictional characters
• Transportation
• Technology
• Organisms
• Other uses
• See also

Adonis may also refer to:

Places

• Adonis, Missouri, USA
• Adonis, West Virginia, USA
• Adonis River or Abraham River, a river in Lebanon
• 2101 Adonis, a near-Earth asteroid
• Adonis, Lebanon
• Adonis Baths, a waterfall in Cyprus

People with the name

• Adonis (musician) (born 1963), house music pioneer
• Adunis (born 1930), Syrian poet
• Adonxs (born Adam Pavlovčin in 1995), Slovak singer-songwriter

Transportation

• USS Adonis, a US Navy ship name
  • USS Adonis (ARL-4), a United States Navy landing craft repair ship
• HMS Adonis, a British Royal Navy ship name
  • HMS Adonis (1806), a British Royal Navy schooner
• Adonis-class schooners, a class of Royal Navy vessels
• Adonis (1874), a wooden brigantine built at Jervis Bay, New South Wales

Technology

• ADONIS (software), a business process analysis tool
• KL-7 or ADONIS, a cipher machine
• ADONIS, an adaptive optics system on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope

Organisms

• Adonis (plant), a genus in the plant family Ranunculaceae
• Adonis blue, a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae
• Adonis opal, a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae
• Asaphodes adonis , a butterfly in the family Geometridae
• Macaria adonis , a butterfly in the family Geometridae
• Adonis tetra, a fish in the family Lepidarchidae
• Acanthicus adonis, a fish in the family Loricariidae
• Atheniella adonis , a mushroom in the genus Cyphellaceae
• Micrixalus adonis , a frog in the family Micrixalidae
• Brettus adonis , a spider in the family Salticidae
• Phidippus adonis , a spider in the family Salticidae
• Psaltoda adonis , a cicada in the family Cicadidae
• Carinodrillia adonis , a sea snail in the family Pseudomelatomidae
• Ancistrobasis adonis , a sea snail in the family Seguinziidae
• Kanamarua adonis , a sea snail in the family Colubrariidae
• Macrocneme adonis , a moth in the family Arciinae
• Fissicrambus adonis a moth in the family Crambidae
• Astrophanes adonis , a bee fly in the family Bombyliidae
• Phanaeus adonis , a dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae
• Lampropholis adonis , a skink in the family Scincidae
• Suillellus adonis , a fungus in the family Boletaceae
• Evalljapyx adonis , a forcepstail in the family Japygidae

Other uses

• Adonis (musical), an 1884 burlesque musical
• Adonis (cocktail), a cocktail named after the musical
• Marché Adonis, a Canadian grocery store chain
• Adonis (band), a Lebanese indie band
• Adonis Geroskipou, a former Cypriot association football club
• Adonis Idaliou, a former Cypriot association football club
• Adonis Mashhad F.C., a former Iranian association football club
• Adonis (Duquesnoy), 17th-century Flemish statue

See also

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• Adonais , an 1821 elegy written by Percy Shelley
• Adonis complex, a muscle dysmorphia
• Adoni (disambiguation), for the singular of Adonis
• Andonis
• Venus and Adonis
• The Birth of Adonis , a painting attributed to Titan
• The Death of Adonis
• All pages with titles containing Adonis
• All pages with titles beginning with Adonis

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