venus
IPA: vˈinʌs
Root Word: Venus
noun
- (astronomy) The second planet in the Solar system, named for the goddess; represented in astronomy and astrology by ♀.
- (Roman mythology) The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and sexuality; the Roman counterpart of Aphrodite.
- A female given name
- (obsolete or poetry) Sexual activity or intercourse, sex; lust, love.
- (obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).
- Any Upper Palaeolithic statuette portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.
- Any of the bivalve molluscs in the genus Venus or family Veneridae.
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Examples of "venus" in Sentences
- Is there a creature in Venus
- The scientists have never been to the planet Venus.
- The history of water on Mars and Venus holds the answer.
- Venus is one of the harshest planets in the Solar System.
- The glyphs above the deity identify it with the planet Venus.
- The orbit intersects the Earth at its perihelion and Venus at its aphelion.
- Venus and Saturn are the only planets expressly mentioned in the Old Testament.
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