Venus

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Venus \Ve"nus\ (v[=e]"n[u^]s), n. [L. Venus, -eris, the goddess
     of love, the planet Venus.]
     1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is,
        beauty or love deified.
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     2. (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the
        sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of
        the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about
        67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its
        sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was
        called by the ancients {Lucifer}; as the evening star,
        {Hesperus}.
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     3. (Alchem.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from
        the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror
        being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus.
        [Archaic]
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     4. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve
        shells of the genus {Venus} or family {Veneridae}. Many of
        these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful
        frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored.
        Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog,
        are valued for food.
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     {Venus's basin} (Bot.), the wild teasel; -- so called because
        the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for
        water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet.
        Also called {Venus's bath}.
  
     {Venus's basket} (Zool.), an elegant, cornucopia-shaped,
        hexactinellid sponge ({Euplectella speciosa}) native of
        the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent,
        siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to
        form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent
        anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands
        erect in the soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called
        also {Venus's flower basket}, and {Venus's purse}.
  
     {Venus's comb}.
        (a) (Bot.) Same as {Lady's comb}.
        (b) (Zool.) A species of {Murex} ({Murex tenuispinus}). It
            has a long, tubular canal, with a row of long, slender
            spines along both of its borders, and rows of similar
            spines covering the body of the shell. Called also
            {Venus's shell}.
  
     {Venus's fan} (Zool.), a common reticulated, fanshaped
        gorgonia ({Gorgonia flabellum}) native of Florida and the
        West Indies. When fresh the color is purple or yellow, or
        a mixture of the two.
  
     {Venus's flytrap}. (Bot.) See {Flytrap}, 2.
  
     {Venus's girdle} (Zool.), a long, flat, ribbonlike, very
        delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore ({Cestum
        Veneris}) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to
        the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust.
        in Appendix.
  
     {Venus's hair} (Bot.), a delicate and graceful fern
        ({Adiantum Capillus-Veneris}) having a slender, black and
        shining stem and branches.
  
     {Venus's hair stone} (Min.), quartz penetrated by acicular
        crystals of rutile.
  
     {Venus's looking-glass} (Bot.), an annual plant of the genus
        {Specularia} allied to the bellflower; -- also called
        {lady's looking-glass}.
  
     {Venus's navelwort} (Bot.), any one of several species of
        {Omphalodes}, low boraginaceous herbs with small blue or
        white flowers.
  
     {Venus's pride} (Bot.), an old name for Quaker ladies. See
        under {Quaker}.
  
     {Venus's purse}. (Zool.) Same as {Venus's basket}, above.
  
     {Venus's shell}. (Zool.)
        (a) Any species of Cypraea; a cowrie.
        (b) Same as {Venus's comb}, above.
        (c) Same as {Venus}, 4.
  
     {Venus's slipper}.
        (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus {Cypripedium}. See
            {Lady's slipper}.
        (b) (Zool.) Any heteropod shell of the genus {Carinaria}.
            See {Carinaria}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Venus
       n 1: 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 star was called Venus
            and the morning star was called Lucifer"
       2: goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite [syn: {Urania}]
       3: type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams
          with thick oval shells [syn: {genus Venus}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  124 Moby Thesaurus words for "Venus":
     Adonis, Agdistis, Aldebaran, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo,
     Apollo Belvedere, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Astarte, Ate, Athena,
     Bacchus, Balder, Canicula, Ceres, Cleopatra, Cora, Cronus, Cupid,
     Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dog Star, Earth,
     Eros, Freya, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hebe, Helios,
     Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hesper, Hesperus, Hestia, Hymen,
     Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur,
     Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kama,
     Kore, Kronos, Love, Lucifer, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva,
     Mithras, Momus, Narcissus, Neptune, Nike, North Star, Olympians,
     Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus,
     Phoebus Apollo, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Pluto, Polaris, Poseidon,
     Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Sirius, Tellus, Uranus,
     Venus de Milo, Vesper, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, asteroid,
     celestial body, comet, daystar, evening star, fixed stars,
     heavenly body, houri, inferior planet, living sapphires, lodestar,
     major planet, minor planet, morning star, orb, peri, planet,
     planetoid, polar star, polestar, secondary planet, solar system,
     sphere, starry host, stars, superior planet, terrestrial planet,
     the Graces, wanderer
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Venus, FL
    Zip code(s): 33960
  Venus, PA
    Zip code(s): 16364
  Venus, TX (town, FIPS 75236)
    Location: 32.42745 N, 97.10459 W
    Population (1990): 977 (219 housing units)
    Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 76084

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Venus, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
     Population (2000):    910
     Housing Units (2000): 344
     Land area (2000):     2.282783 sq. miles (5.912381 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    2.282783 sq. miles (5.912381 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            75236
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             32.429383 N, 97.107022 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     76084
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Venus, TX
      Venus