Flytrap

flytrap n.

[rare] See firewall machine.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

Fly"trap (?), n.

1

. A trap for catching flies.

2. Bot.

A plant (Dionaea 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.

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