venus
Nouns
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(n) 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"
- before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer
- (n) goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite Urania,
- (n) type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells genus Venus,