Venus Flytrap.
(From catch and fly).
1. m. plant American family of the DroserĂ¡ceas, whose leaves have their beam numerous and tiny glands and six sensory hairs. When an insect touches these hairs to pose on the sheet, the two halves of the limbo this revolve about the central nerve and gather, pinning to the insect, whose soft parts are digested by the liquid above glands that secrete.