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Fly-catching

Fly-catching \Fly"-catch`ing\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Having the habit of catching insects on the wing.

Usage examples of "fly-catching".

The very plants were unknown to them--pink lousewort with its sprays of hooked flowers, bog asphodel and the thin-stemmed blooms of the sundews, rising above their hairy, fly-catching mouths, all shut fast by night.