Venus flytrap

Senso (Inglese)

  1. An insectivorous plant of the savannas of North and South Carolina, Dionaea muscipula; the leaves are hinged and bordered with stiff hairs, and close when an insect alights on them.
  2. A kind of barbed trap used in the Vietnam War.

Concetti

Dionaea muscipula

sinonimi

Venus’s flytrap

Venus's flytrap

Traduzioni

dionée attrape-mouche

Dionaea muscipula

dionea atrapamoscas

Dionaea muscipula

Dionée attrape-mouche

Dionaea

Venusvliegenvanger

Dionéia

dionéia

dioneia

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Venus (after the resemblance of the leaves to a human vulva) + flytrap (after the insectivorous nature of the plant).

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