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venusflytrap

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Ve⋅nus's-fly⋅trap

[vee-nuh-siz-flahy-trap]
–noun
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.
Also called Venus flytrap.


Origin:
1760–70, Americanism
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