a goddess, worshipped as the goddess of love in classical Rome though apparently a spirit of kitchen gardens in earlier times
a burrowing marine bivalve mollusc with clearly defined growth lines on the shell
a small carnivorous bog plant with hinged leaves that spring shut on and digest insects which land on them. Native to the south-eastern US, it is also kept as an indoor plant
(b.1980), American tennis player, sister of Serena Williams; full name Venus Ebony Starr Williams
a classical sculpture of Aphrodite dated to circa 100 bc. It was discovered on the Greek island of Melos in 1820 and is now in the Louvre in Paris
a large, almost transparent comb jelly with a flattened ribbon-like body, living chiefly in warmer seas
a slender upright glass sponge with a filmy lattice-like skeleton
a blue-flowered plant of the bellflower family, whose shiny brown seeds inside their open capsule supposedly resemble looking glasses
a burrowing marine bivalve mollusc with clearly defined growth lines on the shell
a burrowing marine bivalve mollusc with clearly defined growth lines on the shell
a burrowing marine bivalve mollusc with clearly defined growth lines on the shell
a small carnivorous bog plant with hinged leaves that spring shut on and digest insects which land on them. Native to the south-eastern US, it is also kept as an indoor plant
a large, rounded edible clam of the Atlantic coast of North America
(b.1980), American tennis player, sister of Serena Williams; full name Venus Ebony Starr Williams