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Venus, a character from the Nintendo video game Earthbound; Venus, one of the three main characters from We Know the Devil; Venus McFlytrap, the daughter of the Venus flytrap, from Monster High; Sailor Venus, the superhero persona of Minako Aino, a character from Sailor Moon and the main protagonist of Codename: Sailor V; Venus, in Unico
Venus (/ ˈ v iː n ə s /) [a] is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy.
The common names of clams in this genus often include the name Venus. A few species that still have "Venus" as part of their common name, but which are no longer in the genus Venus are: Sunray Venus, Macrocallista nimbosa (Lightfoot) Cross-barred Venus, Chione cancellata (Linnaeus) Lady-in-waiting Venus, Chione intapurpurea (Conrad)
The origins of the planetary symbols can be found in the attributes given to classical deities. The Roman planisphere of Bianchini (2nd century, currently in the Louvre, inv. Ma 540) [2] shows the seven planets represented by portraits of the seven corresponding gods, each a bust with a halo and an iconic object or dress, as follows: Mercury has a caduceus and a winged cap; Venus has a ...
An old quahog shell that has been bored (producing Entobia) and encrusted after the death of the clam. Hard clams are quite common throughout New England, north into Canada, and all down the Eastern seaboard of the United States to Florida; but they are particularly abundant between Cape Cod and New Jersey, where seeding and harvesting them is an important commercial form of aquaculture.
Venus entering Gemini is an immediate mood booster for Geminis, especially if the weeks leading up to it (while Venus was in Taurus) got existential. Venus returning to Gemini’s sign feels like ...
The Romans considered the planet Lucifer particularly sacred to the goddess Venus, whose name eventually became the scientific name for the planet. The second century Roman mythographer Pseudo-Hyginus said of the planet: [48] "The fourth star is that of Venus, Luciferus by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is ...
This was the first detailed recorded notice of the plant by Europeans. The description was before John Ellis' letter to The London Magazine on 1 September 1768, [11] and his letter to Carl Linnaeus on 23 September 1768, [25] in which he described the plant and proposed its English name Venus's Flytrap and scientific name Dionaea muscipula. [26]