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more info Venn, n.
English logician who introduced Venn diagrams (1834-1923)
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more info Venn diagram, n.
a diagram that uses circles to represent mathematical or logical sets pictorially inside a rectangle (the universal set); elements that are common to more than one set are represented by intersections of the circles
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more info Venn's diagram, n.
a diagram that uses circles to represent mathematical or logical sets pictorially inside a rectangle (the universal set); elements that are common to more than one set are represented by intersections of the circles
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more info Ventner, n.
United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)
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more info Ventolin, n.
a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects are tachycardia and shakiness
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more info Ventose, n.
sixth month of the Revolutionary calendar (February and March); the windy month
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more info Venturi, n.
United States architect (born in 1925)
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more info Venturi tube, n.
a short tube inserted into a pipeline and used to measure the quantity of a liquid that is flowing in the pipeline
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more info Venus, n.
type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
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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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"before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer"
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goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
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more info Venus maidenhair, n.
delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
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more info Venus mercenaria, n.
an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
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more info Venus' slipper, n.
any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
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more info Venus'-hair fern, n.
delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
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more info Venus's curse, n.
more info Venus's flower basket, n.
a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia
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more info Venus's flytrap, n.
carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects
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more info Venus's flytraps, n.
carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects
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more info Venus's girdle, n.
ctenophore having a ribbon-shaped iridescent gelatinous body
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more info Venus's shoe, n.
any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
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more info Venus's slipper, n.
any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
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more info Venushair, n.
delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
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more info Veps, n.
a Finnic language spoken by the Veps
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a member of a Finnish people of Russia
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more info Vepse, n.
a Finnic language spoken by the Veps
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a member of a Finnish people of Russia
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more info Vepsian, n.
a Finnic language spoken by the Veps
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a member of a Finnish people of Russia
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more info Veracruz, n.
a major Mexican port on the Gulf of Mexico in the state of Veracruz
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more info Veratrum, n.
a genus of coarse poisonous perennial herbs; sometimes placed in subfamily Melanthiaceae
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more info Veratrum viride, n.
North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally
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more info Verbascum, n.
genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves
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more info Verbascum blattaria, n.
European mullein with smooth leaves and large yellow or purplish flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America
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more info Verbascum lychnitis, n.
densely hairy Eurasian herb with racemose white flowers; naturalized in North America
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