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Meaning of venus

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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 [syn:
         {Venus}, {Urania}]
      3: type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams
         with thick oval shells [syn: {Venus}, {genus Venus}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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