fly trap
Example Sentences
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She has now spent a £30 electronic fly trap from Amazon and fly nets for her doors, so that her dog Glyn can stay cool.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Was it your intention to make the Venus fly trap in the music video look like a “Stranger Things” Demogorgon?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
He named it “Audrey II” after the ravenous and cruel human-eating Venus fly trap in Little Shop of Horrors.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
A Venus fly trap has a very low sensitivity threshold, yet it can tell the difference between the light touch of an insect and a drop of rainwater or wind.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
So also the Venus' fly trap captures insects by means of its leaf, which closes upon the prey when certain sensitive hairs have given the signal that the animal has been trapped.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
