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Annul (law) and Adonis (medicine)


Annul (law)




To declare no longer valid





Adonis (medicine)


adonis


1. 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. <botany> 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.

Origin: L, gr. Gr.

Source: Websters Dictionary