FLYTRAP • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Flytrap

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

flytrap n.

A trap for catching flies.

(Bot.) A plant (Dionaea 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.

See images of 'Flytrap'

Etymology of 'Flytrap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Flytrap" Quotes from Famous Books

... columns and sometimes are globular; the begonias (Begoniaceae); the cucumbers, melons, and vegetable marrows (Cucurbitaceae); the singularly-formed passion-flowers (Passifloraceae); the myrtles (Myrtaceae); the carnivorous group containing the sundew and Venus's flytrap (Droseracae); the fleshy houseleek and stonecrops (Crassulaceae); the Saxifrages (Saxifragaceae); the rose group (Rosaceae), which includes within it most of our fruits, such as the apple, ...

— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various

... native, insect, and therefore not perfectly adapted to the milkweed, occasionally gets entrapped by it; the big bumblebee is sometimes fatally imprisoned in the moccasin flower's gorgeous tomb - the punishment of insects that do not benefit the flowers is infinite in its variety. But the local Venus's flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), gathered only from the low savannas in North Carolina to entertain the owners of hothouses as it promptly closes the crushing trap at the end of its sensitive leaves over a hapless fly, and the common sundew that tinges the peat-bogs of three continents with its little ...

— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... fly-maggot trap noted under stomach worms of the horse, and of the various forms of the Hodge flytrap, ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

Words linked to "Flytrap" : trap