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A Venus flytrap
From Venus (after the resemblance of the leaves to a human vulva) + flytrap (after the insectivorous nature of the plant).
Venus flytrap (plural Venus flytraps)
- 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.
- Synonyms: tipitiwitchet, dionaea
- A kind of barbed trap used in the Vietnam War.
Dionaea muscipula
- Catalan: dionea f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 捕蠅草 / 捕蝇草 (zh) (bǔyíngcǎo)
- Czech: mucholapka podivná (cs) f
- Dutch: venusvliegenvanger (nl) m, vliegenvanger (nl) m, venusvliegenval m
- Esperanto: muŝkaptulo
- Finnish: kärpäsloukku (fi)
- French: dionée (fr) f
- German: Venusfliegenfalle (de) f
- Greek: διωναία f (dionaía)
- Irish: cuilghaiste Véineas m
- Italian: dionea f, acchiappamosche m, venere acchiappamosche f, pigliamosche (it) m
- Japanese: 蠅取草 (ja) (はえとりぐさ, haetorigusa)
- Korean: 파리지옥 (parijiok)
- Polish: muchołówka (pl) f, muchołówka amerykańska f
- Portuguese: planta-carnívora f, dioneia (pt) f, apanha-moscas f, papa-moscas (pt) f
- Swedish: venusflugfälla (sv) c, Venus flugfälla c
- Thai: กาบหอยแครง (gàap-hɔ̌ɔi-krɛɛng)
- Turkish: sinekkapan (tr)
- Vietnamese: bẫy kẹp
- Welsh: magl Gwener f
- Yiddish: פֿליגן־כאַפּער m (flign-khaper)
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