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Defenition of the word venus

    • Defenition of the word venus

      • The second planet (counted from the center) of our solar system.
      • The Roman goddess of love, erotic desire and beauty.
      • the second nearest planet to the sun; visible as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'; rotates slowly in the opposite direction from the normal rotation of the planets
      • type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
      • goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
      • the second nearest planet to the sun; visible as an early `morning star'' or an `evening star''; rotates slowly clockwise (in the opposite direction from the normal rotation of the planets); "before it was known that they were the same object the evening
      • 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'

    Synonyms for the word venus

      • genus Venus
      • Urania
      • Venus

    Meronymys for the word venus

      • family Veneridae
      • hard-shell clam
      • Mercenaria mercenaria
      • quahaug
      • quahog
      • round clam
      • solar system
      • Veneridae
      • Venus mercenaria

    Hypernyms for the word venus

      • goddess
      • inferior planet
      • mollusk genus
      • planet
      • Roman deity

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