A device or mechanism designed to catch flying insects, like a Venus flytrap plant that snaps shut on insects, or a sticky trap.
Compound of 'fly' and 'trap,' a straightforward descriptive term. The Venus flytrap plant was named in the 1700s, and the term expanded to mean any fly-catching device.
Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants that literally eat insects—they snap shut in just 100 milliseconds, faster than you can blink, making them nature's ninja predators!
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