Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flytrap"
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) 1.7 (wn)
flytrap
n : a trap for catching flies
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