"Venus" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
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 goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love
deified.
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.
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