Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, natural order Droseraceæ.
- noun In entomology, a genus of dipterous insects. Desvoidy, 1830. Also
Dionea .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An insectivorous plant. See
venus's flytrap .
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- noun botany
Venus flytrap
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- noun a genus of the family Droseraceae
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek a name of Aphrodite.
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matthewsouther commented on the word dionaea
An insectivorous plant
June 14, 2009