VENUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Venus mean? 

• VENUS (noun)
  The noun VENUS has 3 senses:

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'

2. goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite

3. type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells

  Familiarity information: VENUS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENUS (noun)

Sense 1

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'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer

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 2

Meaning:

Goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Urania; Venus

Instance hypernyms:

Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Venus; Venus

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)

 Context examples 

Just one of these granules would extend from the Sun to beyond Venus.

(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)

In the model, Venus’ slow spin exposes its dayside to the sun for almost two months at a time.

(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)

HFAs come in a variety of scale sizes – from around 600 miles across at Venus to closer to 60,000 miles across at Saturn.

(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)

Since Wolf 1061c is close to the inner edge of the habitable zone, meaning closer to the star, it could be that the planet has an atmosphere that's more similar to Venus.

(Searching for Life on Wolf 1061 Exoplanet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The next of each type visible from Mars will be Mercury in April 2015, Venus in August 2030 and Earth in November 2084.

(Mercury passes in front of the Sun, as seen from Mars, NASA)

In 2016, Hubble observations also did not find evidence for hydrogen atmospheres in c and d. These results and the new ones, instead, favor more compact atmospheres like those of Earth, Venus and Mars.

(New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres, NASA)

Venus will glide in Taurus from March 4 until April 3, an ideal sign to generate love and admiration for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the case of the Solar System, this will include Mercury, Venus, and even Earth, which will all be consumed by the red-giant Sun in about 5 billion years.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

The eruptions on Io are likely similar to those that shaped the surfaces of inner solar system planets such as Earth and Venus in their youth.

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)

Hydrogen springs from Venus to join the solar wind, the continuous stream of particles escaping the Sun.

(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)