Venus

['viːnəs] or ['vinəs]

解释:

(noun.) type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite.

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(n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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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同义词及近义词:

n. (Astron.) [1]. Lucifer, PHOSPHORUS, morning star.[2]. Hesperus, Hesper, Vesper, evening star.

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n. (Roman myth.) the goddess of love originally of spring patron of flower-gardens but identified with the Greek Aphrodite: beauty and love deified: sexual commerce venery: the most brilliant of the planets second in order from the sun.—Venus's flower-basket a beautiful glass sponge; Venus's fly-trap (see DionéŽ); Venus's girdle a t鎛iate ctenophoran.—Mount of Venus (palm.) the elevation at the base of the thumb.

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