Venus - Definition
venus
n 1: 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'; "before it was known that they were the
same object the evening star was called Venus and the
morning star was called Lucifer"
2: goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite [syn:
Venus, Urania]
3: type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams
with thick oval shells [syn: Venus, genus Venus]