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VENUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
Synonyms:
genus Venus; Venus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Venus" is a kind of...):
mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)
Meronyms (members of "Venus"):
hard-shell clam; hard clam; Mercenaria mercenaria; quahaug; quahog; round clam; Venus mercenaria (an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians)
Holonyms ("Venus" is a member of...):
family Veneridae; Veneridae (hard-shell clams)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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'
Example:
before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
inferior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit)
terrestrial planet (a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system)
Holonyms ("Venus" is a member of...):
solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
Synonyms:
Urania; Venus
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Context examples:
To do so, he built on his experience working with radar images on NASA's Magellan Venus orbiter and from a previous regional geologic map of Titan that he developed.
(The First Global Geologic Map of Titan Completed, NASA)
But this could also backfire in a "runaway greenhouse" process, in which the atmosphere becomes so thick the planet surface overheats – as on Venus.
(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)
Until recently, it was assumed that a thick atmosphere like that of modern Venus was required for the planet to have today’s slow rotation rate.
(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)
Many viewers on Earth observed a Venus transit in June 2012, the last visible from Earth this century.
(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)
Venus expresses her most loving qualities in Pisces, and because Pisces is a water sign like yours, Cancer, you will easily absorb the goodness of Venus and the transiting moon.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Scientists have now spotted at planet Mercury, for the first time, a classic space weather event called a hot flow anomaly, or HFA, which has previously been spotted at Earth, Venus, Saturn and Mars.
(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)
A day on Venus is 117 Earth days.
(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)
Mercury and Venus transits are visible more often from Mars than from Earth, and Mars also offers a vantage point for seeing Earth transits.
(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)
You’ll also surely want to circle Friday, March 27, when Venus and Jupiter will make a decisive and supportive aspect linking your house of truelove.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
However, Venus is closer to the sun than Earth and receives far more sunlight.
(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)
