adonis

noun ! Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about adonis at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

1. Any handsome young man.
2. Annual or perennial herbs.
3. (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