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4 definitions found 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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