Venus

vē′nus, n. ( Roman myth. ) the godde of love, originally of spring, patron of flower-gardens, but identified with the Greek Aphrodite: beauty and love deified: sexual commerce, venery: the most brilliant of the planets, second in order from the sun.— Venus's flower-basket , a beautiful gla sponge; Venus's fly-trap (see Dionæa ); Venus's girdle , a tæniate ctenophoran.— Mount of Venus ( palm. ), the elevation at the base of the thumb. [L., orig. personified from venus , desire; akin to venerāri , to worship.]