Venus flytrap

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• A kind of barbed trap used in the Vietnam War.

Origin

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