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Webster 1913 Edition

flytrap

fly′trap

(flī′trăp)
,
Noun.
1.
A trap for catching flies.
2.
(Bot.)
A plant
(Dionæa muscipula)
, called also
Venus’s flytrap
, having two-lobed leaves which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain sensitive hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus trapping insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves. The plant is native to North and South Carolina, growing in bogs.

Webster 1828 Edition

Flytrap

FLYTRAP

,
Noun.
In botany, a species of sensitive plant, called Venus' Fly-trap, the Dionaea Muscipula; a plant that has the power of seizing insects that light on it.

Definition 2024

flytrap

flytrap

English

Alternative forms

  • fly trap

Noun

flytrap ‎(plural flytraps)

  1. A trap for catching flies
  2. Venus flytrap, an insectivorous plant

Etymology

fly +‎ trap

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