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flytrap
[ flahy-trap ]
noun
- any of various plants that entrap insects, especially the Venus flytrap.
- fly trap, a trap for catching flies or other insects.
flytrap
/ ˈflaɪˌtræp /
noun
- any of various insectivorous plants, esp Venus's flytrap
- a device for catching flies
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To demonstrate the potential for these artificial neurons to be wired up to biological systems, the researchers plugged one of them into a Venus flytrap.
His descriptions of New York bars as tumbledown, exploitative flytraps for the working poor would have resonated in London, Dublin, Moscow, Johannesburg, or anywhere throughout the 19-century world.
To make a grabber they could control, Li’s team attached a piece of a flytrap to a robotic arm.
So, Li’s team attached a piece of a flytrap to a robotic arm and used a smartphone app to control the trap.
The network is a flytrap for cranks, conspiracy theorists, anti-Semites, and defenders of authoritarianism.
Don Draper versus a guy who became famous for playing Venus Flytrap on WKRP in Cincinnati?
Along the edge of the mask is a fringe of inward-pointing spines like those which edge the leaf margins of a venus flytrap.
I never knew one of them to claim less than that for a patent flytrap or an improved sausage stuffer.
Come along, don't stand there with your mouth open like a flytrap.
The mouth opened like a flytrap; the eyes were small and intensely guileless.
The Hodge flytrap fitted to the windows of dairy barns is a useful means of destroying stable flies.
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