Venusian en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /vəˈnuʃən/ (General-American)
- /vəˈnuʒən/ (General-American)
- (General-American) audio
- /vɪˈnjuː.si.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /vɪˈnjuː.ziən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin Venusbor. Middle English Venus English Venus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Venusian From Venus + -ian.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to the planet Venus.
the Venusian landscape
The robot craft, the fifth from the Soviet Union to land on Venus, is a module detached from Venera 13. It plunged through the dense, baking-hot carbon dioxide atmosphere and touched down in the foothills of a mountainous region known as Phoebe, just south of the Venusian equator and also below the active volcanic region of Beta. An identical lander, from Venera 14, is expected to reach Venus Friday and probably put down on the plains east of the Phoebe landing site.
1982 March 2, John Noble Wilford, “FIFTH SOVIET CRAFT LANDS ON VENUS AND IS FIRST TO SAMPLE PLANET'S SOIL”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, Science:Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides.
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to inhabitants of Venus.
a Venusian invasion
The farms emulate Venus's atmosphere, so as the generations of Taumoeba go by, they'll get even better at Venusian life.
2021, Andy Weir, chapter 26, in Project Hail Mary, Penguin Books, page 432:
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to the Roman goddess Venus.
Near-synonym: Aphrodisian
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venutian | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Uranian · Mercurian · Jovian · Plutonian · Saturnian · Terran · Martian · Neptunian · Lunar
Synonyms
Translations (21)
pl wenusjański (of Venusians) · ja 金星の (of Venus) · ja 金星人の (of Venusians) · sv venusiansk (of Venus) · sv venusiansk (of Venusians) · de Venus- (of Venus) · fi venuslainen (of Venus) · fr vénusien (of Venusians) · it venusiano (of Venusians) · de venusisch (of Venus) · de venerisch (of Venus) · fi venuslainen (of Venusians) · bg венериа́нски (of Venus) · ca venusià (of Venus) · ga Véineasach (of Venus) · ru венериа́нский (of Venus) · pt venusiano (of Venus) · pl wenusjański (of Venus) · de venusisch (of Venusians) · it venusiano (of Venus) · fr vénusien (of Venus)