Venus flytraps

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  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of Venus flytrap.
  Venus flytrap

  noun

  a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North Carolina and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when tiny, sensitive hairs on their inner surfaces are irritated, as by a fly: classified as a vulnerable species and currently known to exist naturally only in sites within 56 miles (90 kilometers) of Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Venus flytraps

Authorities in North Carolina have arrested two people in a case of poaching hundreds of Venus flytraps, which grow naturally in the eastern part of the state.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

That's just one of the findings in a new study that sequences the genome of Nepenthes gracilis, a species of carnivorous plant related to Venus flytraps, as well as sundews, beets and spinach.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023

But I’m doing a project right now on illicit harvesting of Venus flytraps in North Carolina, and as of 2015 it’s a felony to take flytraps from public lands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

Outside the animal kingdom, Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and others are well known for their macabre meal-making.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

And it’s called a Mars mantrap as a joke comparing it to the Venus flytraps of the known world.”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

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