venturi
— Noun
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～ a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)
Venturi tube
— Noun
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～ a short tube inserted into a pipeline and used to measure the quantity of a liquid that is flowing in the pipeline
venturi
— Noun
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～ United States architect (born in 1925)
venturous
— Adjective
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～ disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"
venue
— Noun
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～ the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
venue
— Noun
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～ in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held
venula
— Noun
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～ a minute vein continuous with a capillary
stellate venule
— Noun
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～ a star-shaped group of venules in the renal cortex
venule
— Noun
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～ a minute vein continuous with a capillary
Venus
— Noun
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～ type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells
Venus
— Noun
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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'; "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer"
Venus
— Noun
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～ goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
Venus' slipper
— Noun
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～ any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips
Venus mercenaria
— Noun
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～ an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
Venus maidenhair
— Noun
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～ delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
Venus'-hair fern
— Noun
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～ delicate maidenhair fern with slender shining black leaf stalks; cosmopolitan
genus Venus
— Noun
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～ type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells