Venus ¹

Definition: The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.

Venus ²

Definition: 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 miles. Its diameter is miles, and its sidereal period days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus.

Venus ³

Definition: 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.

Venus ⁴

Definition: 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.

Venus ⁵

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

Venus ⁶

Definition: the second nearest planet to the sun; visible as an early `morning star'' or an `evening star''; rotates slowly clockwise (in the opposite direction from the normal rotation of the planets); "before it was known that they were the same object the evening

Venus ⁷

Definition: goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite