Meaning

noun 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 a

noun goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite

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

originFrom translingual Venus (“a genus of clams”), from Latin.

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