venus : Idioms & Phrases

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genus venus

  • noun type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
    Venus.
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venus maidenhair

  • noun delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
    Venushair; Adiantum capillus-veneris; Venus maidenhair; common maidenhair; southern maidenhair.
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venus mercenaria

  • noun an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
    hard-shell clam; Mercenaria mercenaria; quahaug; hard clam; quahog; round clam.
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venus' slipper

  • noun any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
    Venus' slipper; Venus's shoe.
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venus'-hair fern

  • noun delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
    Venushair; Adiantum capillus-veneris; Venus maidenhair; common maidenhair; southern maidenhair.
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Venus's basin

  • (Bot.), the wild teasel; so called because the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet. Also called Venus's bath.
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Venus's basket

  • (Zoöl.), an elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge (Euplectella speciosa) native of the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called also Venus's flower basket, and Venus's purse.
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Venus's comb

  • . (a) (Bot.) Same as Lady's comb. (b) (Zoöl.) A species of Murex (M. tenuispinus). It has a long, tubular canal, with a row of long, slender spines along both of its borders, and rows of similar spines covering the body of the shell. Called also Venus's shell.
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venus's curse

  • noun a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
    STD; VD; venereal infection; Cupid's disease; sexually transmitted disease; dose; venereal disease; social disease; Cupid's itch.
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Venus's fan

  • (Zoöl.), a common reticulated, fanshaped gorgonia (Gorgonia flabellum) native of Florida and the West Indies. When fresh the color is purple or yellow, or a mixture of the two.
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venus's flower basket

  • noun a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia
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Venus's flytrap

  • noun carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects
    Dionaea muscipula; Venus's flytrap.
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  • . (Bot.) See Flytrap, 2.
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venus's flytraps

  • noun carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects
    Dionaea muscipula; Venus's flytrap.
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Venus's girdle

  • noun ctenophore having a ribbon-shaped iridescent gelatinous body
    Cestum veneris.
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  • (Zoöl.), a long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore (Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix.
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Venus's hair

  • (Bot.), a delicate and graceful fern (Adiantum Capillus-Veneris) having a slender, black and shining stem and branches.
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Venus's hair stone

  • (Min.), quartz penetrated by acicular crystals of rutile.
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Venus's looking-glass

  • (Bot.), an annual plant of the genus Specularia allied to the bellflower; also called lady's looking-glass.
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Venus's navelwort

  • (Bot.), any one of several species of Omphalodes, low boraginaceous herbs with small blue or white flowers.
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Venus's pride

  • (Bot.), an old name for Quaker ladies. See under Quaker.
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Venus's purse

  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Venus's basket, above.
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Venus's shell

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of Cypræa; a cowrie. (b) Same as Venus's comb, above. (c) Same as Venus, 4.
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venus's shoe

  • noun any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
    Venus' slipper; Venus's shoe.
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Venus's slipper

  • noun any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
    Venus' slipper; Venus's shoe.
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  • . (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Cypripedium. See Lady's slipper. (b) (Zoöl.) Any heteropod shell of the genus Carinaria. See Carinaria.
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