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Noun venus has 3 senses

Venus - the second nearest planet to the sun; visible as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'; rotates slowly clockwise (in the opposite direction from the normal rotation of the planets); "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer"
--₁ is a kind of inferior planet
--₁ is a member of solar system
Venus, Urania - goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
--₂ is a kind of Roman deity
Venus, genus Venus - type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
--₃ is a kind of mollusk genus
--₃ is a member of Veneridae, family Veneridae
--₃ has members:
quahog, quahaug, hard-shell clam, round clam, Venus mercenaria, Mercenaria mercenaria