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- Venus - n. - The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
- Venus - 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.
- Venus - 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.
- 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.
- Venust - a. - Beautiful.
- Elongation - n. - The angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of Venus or Mercury.
- Eclipse - n. - An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.
- Transit - n. - The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
- 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.
- Veneracea - n. pl. - An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venus is the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped, with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.
- Aphrodite - n. - The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of the Romans.
- Adonis - n. - A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.
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- G1891 Ἐπαφρόδιτος - 1891 Ἐπαφρόδιτος - ἘΠΑΦΡΌΔΙΤΟΣ - - Epaphróditos - ep-af-rod'-ee-tos - from ἐπί (in the sense of devoted to) and (Venus); Epaphroditus, a Christian:--Epaphroditus. Compare Ἐπαφρᾶς. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G3720 ὀρθρινός - 3720 ὀρθρινός - ὈΡΘΡΙΝΌΣ - - orthrinós - or-thrin-os' - from ὄρθρος; relating to the dawn, i.e. matutinal (as an epithet of Venus, especially brilliant in the early day):--morning. - Adjective - greek