Venus fly-trap(n.) carnivorous plant of the Carolinas, by 1768,Venus's fly-trap, sometimes alsoVenus's mousetrap;fly-trapwas a name for native European sticky plants that capture and digest insects (seefly(n.1)). The plant was brought to the attention of botanists in England in 1760 wh...
Venus Butterfly (technique): A sex act that involves both oral stimulation of the genitalia (cunnilingus) and manual stimulation (fingering) at the same time. Vers: This stands for “versatile” and refers to those who enjoy being both the top and the bottom during sex (and in kink dynam...
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Venus. Depressed return, make it. Demanding. To finish doing something successfully. To make someone feel very unhappy. To involve oneself or become old. They put in something. All the income produced by a particular source. To keep something. To rent the things. That is the. Two rings of...
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Diana, from LatinLucifer"morning star," noun use of adjective, literally "light-bringing," fromlux(genitivelucis) "light" (from PIE root*leuk-"light, brightness") +ferre"to carry, bear," from PIE root*bher-(1) "to carry," also "to bear children." Venus in the evening sky was...
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“De la terre à la lune”(“From the Earth to the Moon”) and its sequel,“Autour de la lune”(“Around the Moon”) by Jules Verne. A Steampunk dream duo of tales about the first (fictional) moon landing. “Voyage à Vénus”(“Voyage to Venus”) by Archille Eyraud. Journey by...
But Venus, angry because she had not been granted what she thought was her right, stirred the women in Thrace by love, each to seek Orpheus for herself, so that they tore him limb from limb. His head, carried down from the mountain into the sea, was cast by the waves upon the ...