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.

Origin of flytrap

First recorded in 1765–75; fly¹ + trap¹

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How to use flytrap in a sentence

Such a cleft in the head could never mean a song; it could never be utilized for anything but a fly-trap.
Roof and Meadow | Dallas Lore Sharp
Closely related to the sundew is the Venus fly-trap (Diona muscipula, Ellis).
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 1, June 1899 | Various
And do not answer this—I do not write it as a fly trap for compliments.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 | Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
Over the candles hangs a cake of Jew's Bread, once perhaps the property of her Levitical lover, and now used as a fly-trap.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings | John Trusler
It is called a fly-trap because it has on each of its leaves something like a steel-trap, by means of which it catches flies.
First Book in Physiology and Hygiene | J.H. Kellogg

British Dictionary definitions for flytrap

flytrap

/ (ˈflaɪˌtræp) /

noun

any of various insectivorous plants, esp Venus's flytrap
a device for catching flies

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