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Venus, Urania | goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite | |
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Venus | 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' | |
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Venus, genus Venus | type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells |