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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
flytrap
n : a trap for catching flies
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
flytrap n. [rare] See {firewall machine}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
flytrap
See {firewall machine}.
[{Jargon File}]
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