[vee-nuh-siz-flahy-trap] 
| a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant. |
| Venus flytrap or Venus' flytrap also Venus's flytrap n. An insectivorous plant (Dionaea muscipula) of the coastal plain of the Carolinas, having sensitive, hinged, marginally bristled, two-lobed leaf blades that close and entrap insects. |
Venus flytrap
[after the insect-eating plant] See firewall machine.
[The Jargon File]