Venus - definition, transcription
Amer.
|ˈviːnəs|
Brit.
|ˈviːnəs|
noun
- the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star' (syn: venus)
- type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells (syn: venus)
before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer
- goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite (syn: venus)- type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells (syn: venus)
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She wrote an imaginative story about life on the planet Venus.
How punctually they have surrogated the Blessed Virgin into the place of Venus.
Venus is Earth's nearest neighbor.
Venus was also seen in the southern quarter.
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