Noun
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type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
- genus venus -
goddess of love
counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
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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"