Crossword clues for venusian
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"(hypothetical) inhabitant of the second planet from the sun," 1866, from Venus + -ian. Middle English had Venerian "one under the influence of the planet Venus; a lover" (late 14c.).
Wikipedia
Venusian , Venerean , or Venereal may refer to:
- Of or relating to the planet Venus
- Venusians, hypothetical or fictional beings that inhabit the planet Venus
- Of or relating to the Roman love-goddess Venus
The forms in -an pertain to the goddess or planet itself, while those in -al refer to attributes of the goddess.
Usage examples of "venusian".
Venusians now threaten us, and the Earthians may come later since they are most fortunate in resources for space-flight.
The leader of the Venusian expedition had a much heartier handclasp than Tal was accustomed to receiving.
A formfitting chair, a tall cool drink, a Venusian cigar, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik on the taper, aboard his ketch while he sails with a bunch of dancing girls down Sunda Straits, that is only which he wants.
Do you remember that time you gave a Venusian guppy a can of condensed milk in exchange for a pinfire opal not as big as the city clock?
It was xenophobic pride along with guilt, I believe, that kept me from accepting this until now: I too did not want to believe in Venusians but instead was seeking some naturalistic outlet, some credible and limited explanation.
It is enough to say that the shipping-port and its cargoes outbound interested him deeply just now, and that the friend he awaited was Yarol the Venusian, in that swift little Edsel ship the Maid that can flash from world to world with a derisive speed that laughs at Patrol boats and leaves pursuers floundering in the ether far behind.
Nothing in their experience had ever completely baffled Gerry Carlyle, except the strange case of the Venusian murri, and they had confidence she would get them out of this predicament.
A large number of samples had been taken, and after careful checks and rechecks, summarized in some detail, the chemists were able to say what the Venusian atmosphere appeared to be.
Not even the lowest class of Venusian street-walker dared come along the waterfronts of Ednes on the nights when the space-liners were not in.
A method existed by which Conner Freeman, chief of the Venusian operation, could contact him.
Venusian Habitat, discussed horse breeding with a minor consular official from the Texan Dependency, was gracious to the charge d'affaires for the Titanian government-in-exile, and chatted about nothing in particular with an English-speaking sheik from the little desert kingdom of Iowa, whose ancestors had been wheat farmers before the greenhouse effect had shifted the American breadbasket northeast to the Islamic Commonwealth of Quebec.
Also, these outbreaks were beginning to display a mysterious concertion and a degree of mentality of which the Venusians had not hitherto been believed capable.
The reference to him as its agent, and the attempt to tie in Venusian detectives-it was the first public attack against the sacred symbols of null-A that he had ever heard.
First, a particularly resilient strain of blue-green algae would be bred over a number of years in laboratory conditions similar to those of the Venusian atmosphere.
If Rhodan had ventured out to sea in the liferaft it meant that, for some reason, he must have lost contact with Earth as well as with the Venusian bulwark.