French Meaning of venus
Vénus
Other French words related to Vénus
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Nearest Words of venus
- venus maidenhair => Adiante de Vénus
- venus mercenaria => Venus mercenaria
- venus' slipper => sabot de Vénus
- venushair => adiante
- venus'-hair fern => Capillaire de Montpellier
- venus's curse => Malédiction de Vénus
- venus's flower basket => Fleur de Neptune
- venus's flytrap => Dionée attrape-mouche
- venus's flytraps => dionées attrape-mouches
- venus's girdle => Ceintures de Vénus
Definitions and Meaning of venus in English
venus (n)
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'
goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
venus (n.)
The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
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.
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.
Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus 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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Vénus
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 excep
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venulose => veinuleux, venule => vénule, venula => veinule, venue => Lieu, ventuse => ventouse,
