Etymologies
- From Latin Venus, used as a scientific name. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now these blood clots are also called venus thrombosis, deep vein thrombosis, or DVT.”
“Oh, and "venus" – I'm a MCCAIN supporter and I say that you people are the RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDEST of all people!”
“Small objects, such as "venus" figurines, bone flutes, and miscellaneous carvings go back 40,000 years.”
“If you dress a razor up in pink and name it "venus" I'll run ten miles in the other direction.”
“The Romans knew several varieties such as venus, ram and punic chickpeas.”
“Pittsburgh Steelers shoulder pads, Blade Runner fringe, glossy lips, venus fly trap tongue.”
“Maybe we need a venus flytrap, just so that I can refer to it as a “tipitiwitchet”.”
“I also recall that Jesus tomb has something to do with venus which the Greeks/Romans thought to be Aphrodite [goddess of love and war]”
“Go to a popular news site like The Huffington Post and plug the term "mars venus" into the search field.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright: Debunking The Mars-Venus Myth
“I remember Sunday mornings I used to listen to her snap at her cereal like a venus fly trap, that beautifully hungry flower, before her hour drive to the nearest Korean church.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘venus’.
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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songbirds
Names of girls in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the titles.
Just the name on the list, then the full title with any identifying notes in the comments, please.
Can be the same ...marianne, evie, lady d'arbanville, peggy sue, suzanne, dianne, boni maroni, miss molly, lola, mony, sadie, rita and 206 more...
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Girls I would go out with
felicity, may, june, april, penny, joy, harmony, your mom, asia the invincible, durga devi, orlando, amrapali and 3 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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chefjulianin's Words
high, ice, recipe, bear, bare, lady, food, identity, sudden, spooky, away, cook and 142 more...
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Rose varieties
Rosarians have names for thousands of varieties of roses.
holy toledo, gourmet popcorn, apple jack, barbara bush, burning desire, hot tamale, tradescant, sweet surrender, sweet chariot, pinocchio, oyster pearl, olympiad and 309 more...
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the gods must be crazy!
quetzalcoatl, baron-samedi, loa, orichas, arianrhod, aine, amaethon, annwn, arnemetia, balor, badbh, bean nighe and 1061 more...
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Names of People/Animals Real/Fiction ...
dickensian, wagnerian, daliesque, ghandian, kafkaesque, faulknerian, jungian, freudian, elizabethan, charlemagne, shakespearian, chekovian and 467 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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ephemerides
being words related to astronomy, stellar cartography, and the music of the spheres, including names of planets, stars and constellations
ephemerides, ascension, declination, apogee, planet, star, constellation, galaxy, system, syzygy, ecliptic, sun and 202 more...
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Mollusks
"Snaily, clammy, squidy" has evolved into a vehicle for linking to mollusk quotations, so I've started this list for vernacular names of mollusks.
clam, snail, slug, squid, octopus, nautilus, conch, chank, whelk, mussel, oyster, scallop and 221 more...
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eloise's Words
embrace, perfect, imagine, dance, water, color, echo, hollow, sorrow, beauty, impossible, violet and 438 more...
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In Gods Name
re, khepera, nut, geb, hathor, seth, horus, min, osiris, anubis, sekhmet, ama-terasu and 104 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for venus.

reesetee Oh no! Earworm! And not a good one, either! Oct 11, 2007
john
From the Wordie Flickr Group Oct 11, 2007