<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.</li><li>an exceptionally beautiful woman.</li><li>(sometimes lowercase) Archaeology. a statuette of a female figure, usually carved of ivory and typically having exaggerated breasts, belly, or buttocks, often found in Upper Paleolithic cultures from Siberia to France.</li><li>Astronomy. the planet second in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7,521 miles (12,104 km), a mean distance from the sun of 67.2 million miles (108.2 million km), a period of revolution of 224.68 days, and no moons. It is the most brilliant planet in the solar system.</li><li>Chemistry Obsolete. copper.</li></ul>