venus.n.01

'venus.n.01'

[venus.n.01] as in: the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'

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Examples:
before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer