venus flytrap

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noun
  1. 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. 2

    A kind of barbed trap used in the Vietnam War.

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