Crossword clues for flytrap
The Collaborative International Dictionary
flytrap \fly"trap\ (fl[imac]"tr[a^]p), n.
A trap for catching flies.
(Bot.) A plant (Dion[ae]a 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.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A trap for catching fly 2 Venus flytrap, an insectivorous plant n. 1 A trap for catching fly 2 Venus flytrap, an insectivorous plant
WordNet
n. a trap for catching flies
Wikipedia
Flytrap is the eighth album by Christian metal band Whitecross, released in 1996.
Usage examples of "flytrap".
The tables of the Venus Flytrap were each enclosed in their own plexiglass dome.
The other customers of the Venus Flytrap coolly acted as if nothing had happened.
Though flytraps were worth more, they were mixed in with sundews of much lower point value.
And Venus flytraps, and black widow spiders, and human beings, lust as He created a world where every organism Survives by rending a weaker organism.
Venus flytrap genes had turned this Pecos Pete tall-tale vaporware into grisly functionality.
Behind the glass were Roachsters, Slugabeds, hanky bushes, padplants, flytraps, condombers, snackbushes, garbage disposals, litterbugs, fluorescent philodendrons, and other products of the gengineer's art.
The sporulating vine may only dream that it fornicates, but I am sure the Venus flytrap tastes that fly, relishes its diminishing struggle as its jaws close around it.
That was the rhododendron in the eighteenth century--and the camellia, the hydrangea, the wild cherry, the rudbeckia, the azalea, the aster, the ostrich fern, the catalpa, the spice bush, the Venus flytrap, the Virginia creeper, the euphorbia.
It's not much different from a Venus flytrap or a pitcher plant, don't you see that?
You see hundreds of Venus flytraps, sundews and pitcher plants around bays -probably because the ponds promote insects.
Maybe she was only a clinging vine after all, because the Venus flytrap is a species of vine, but that plant is carnivorous and will make animal motion when a fly or a bit of raw meat is placed in its jaws.
You probably know of a plant called the Venus flytrap, which grows in the tropics.
When a fly, attracted by the smell of the flower, lands on the Venus flytrap, the mouth of the plant begins to close, trapping the fly.
It was clear to Zar that while he had been inert the tendrils had fastened themselves slowly around him, in a way that was half like the closing of an ancient Venus Flytrap, carnivorous plant of old, and half like the simple creeping of a vine on a wall.
The arrows whooshed and mounted in nearby foliage, sprung loose from a giant Venus flytrap catapult hidden under leaves.