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Venus    音标拼音: [v'inəs]
n. 维那斯,金星

维那斯,金星

Venus
n 1: 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"
2: goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite [synonym:
{Venus}, {Urania}]
3: type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams
with thick oval shells [synonym: {Venus}, {genus Venus}]

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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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


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