“venus's”

The following 14 entries include the term venus's.

Venus's flower-basket

noun

: any of several glass sponges (genus Euplectella) of the western Pacific and Indian oceans

Venus's-basket

noun

: venus's-flower-basket

Venus's-chariot

noun

: a monkshood (Aconitum napellus)

Venus's-comb

noun

Venus's-cup

noun

: a yellow lady's slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum)

Venus's-ear

noun

Venus's-fan

noun

: a reticulated fan-shaped gorgonian (Gorgonia flabellum) native to Florida and the West Indies commonly purple or yellow or a mixture of the two while living

Venus's-girdle

noun

: any of various ctenophores constituting the genus Cestum and having the body greatly compressed transversely and elongated in a sagittal plane so that it is ribbonlike with the mouth at the middle of one border

Venus's-hairstone

noun

: quartz penetrated by acicular crystals of rutile

Venus's looking-glass

noun

: a plant of the genus Specularia (especially S. speculum-veneris)

Venus's-navelwort

noun

Venus's-pride

noun

: a bluet of the genus Houstonia

Venus's-shell

noun

: cowrie

Venus's-shoe

noun

: an American orchid of the genus Cypripedium compare lady's slipper


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