Venus's-flytrap
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Venus's-flytrap
An Americanism dating back to 1770–80
Example Sentences
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It is also the story of ever-maudlin Ken, a kind of tame Venus's-flytrap, whom Amanda keeps around less for biological than for decorative reasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
It takes little imagination to see the Venus's-flytrap that Steinem could have grown from that seedling.
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By crossing a butterwort with a Venus's-flytrap, Seymour creates a new plant type, which he calls Audrey Jr. and which, it happens, feeds on human blood.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The New Yorker is kind of like the Venus's-flytrap," says one staffer.
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W. S. W.—Your florist friend will know better than we can tell you in what way to procure you a plant of the Venus's-flytrap.
From Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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