venus

Noun
  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' (synset 109493892)
    "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer"
    is an instance of:
    • 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
    belongs to: solar system - the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
  2. Goddess of love;
    Counterpart of Greek Aphrodite (synset 109578256)
    is an instance of: roman deity - a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans
    same as: urania
  3. Type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells (synset 101960380)
    is a type of: mollusk genus - a genus of mollusks
    member holonym: hard clam, hard-shell clam, mercenaria mercenaria, quahaug, quahog, round clam, venus mercenaria - an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
    belongs to: family veneridae, veneridae - hard-shell clams
    same as: genus venus

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