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Love and Beauty: Aphrodite, Venus
Greek: Aphrodite (goddess)
Latin: Venus (goddess)
Latin: Venus (goddess)
The goddess of love and beauty. Symbols: doves and sparrows.
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gods and goddesses from Greek and Latin Myths
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venomous, venous, Venus
venomous (VEN uh muhs) (adjective)
Capable of putting poison or venom into another animal's body usually by biting or stinging it: "Sometimes a bee sting can be venomous for some people and has to be treated immediately."
venous (VEE nuhs) (adjective)
Full of or characterized by veins, veiny: "The venous tissue was being examined by the doctor."
Venus (VEE nuhs) (noun)
1. The planet that is second in order from the sun: "Venus is the planet that you can often see close to the moon on clear nights."
2. The Roman goddess of beauty and love: "When in Rome, I saw a beautiful statue of the goddess Venus."
2. The Roman goddess of beauty and love: "When in Rome, I saw a beautiful statue of the goddess Venus."
In her youth, she was compared to Venus; however, with age, her legs became very venous. The dramatic change in her looks gave rise to venomous gossip.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group V; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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Venus
1. In Roman Mythology, the goddess of love and beauty.
2. An ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with the Greek Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.
3. An exceptionally beautiful woman.
4. In archaeology, a statuette of a female figure, usually carved of ivory and typically having exaggerated breasts, belly, or buttocks; often found in Upper Paleolithic cultures from Siberia to France.
5. The second planet from the sun, having an average radius of 6,052 kilometers (3,761 miles), a mass 0.815 times that of Earth, and a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 224.7 days at a mean distance of approximately 108.2 million kilometers (67.2 million miles).
2. An ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with the Greek Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.
3. An exceptionally beautiful woman.
4. In archaeology, a statuette of a female figure, usually carved of ivory and typically having exaggerated breasts, belly, or buttocks; often found in Upper Paleolithic cultures from Siberia to France.
5. The second planet from the sun, having an average radius of 6,052 kilometers (3,761 miles), a mass 0.815 times that of Earth, and a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 224.7 days at a mean distance of approximately 108.2 million kilometers (67.2 million miles).
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(Latin: goddess of love; love, loveliness, attractiveness, beauty, charm)
(Venus, Roman goddess; Aphrodite, Greek goddess; second planet from the sun)
(Greek: Kypris, a name for Venus or Aphrodite; a lewd or licentious woman)
(Greek: Kytheria; another name for Venus or Aphrodite)
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Callipygian Venus
Venus, thought to be more beautiful than any mortal woman, is a sculpture called Callipygian, meaning "of the beautiful bottom" or "of the beautiful backside". The late Hellenistic original once stood at the center of a pool in Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome.
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calli-, cali-, callo-, calo-, kalli-, kali-, kalo-, kaleido-
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pyg-, pygo-, -pyga, -pygia
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venereal collar, collar of pearls, collar of Venus, leukoderma colli
Syphilitic leukoderma or a congenital skin condition characterized by spots or bands of unpigmented skin around the neck and shoulders.
It is virtually pathognomonic of late syphilis; that is, decisively characteristic of a disease or indicating a disease with certainty.
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coll-, col-
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dermo-, derm-, derma-, dermato-, dermat-, -derm, -derma, -dermatic, -dermatous, -dermis, -dermal, -dermic, -dermoid, -dermatoid
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leuko-, leuk-, -leukemia; alternate spellings: leuco-, leuc-, -leucemia
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venus claudication
1. Intermittent claudication (limping or lameness) as a result of an obstruction in the veins.
2. Claudication resulting from inadequate venous drainage of blood.
2. Claudication resulting from inadequate venous drainage of blood.
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