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Flymenflyover
flypaper
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flysch
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flyswat
flyswatter
Flyte
flytier
flyting
Flytree
Flytting
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FM
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Flytrap definitions
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FLYTRAP, n. In botany, a species of sensitive plant, called Venus' Fly-trap, the Dionaea Muscipula; a plant that has the power of seizing insects that light on it.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a trap for catching flies
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Flytrap Fly"trap, n. 1. A trap for catching flies. 2. (Bot.) A plant (Dion[ae]a muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.
