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fly trap

slang The mouth. You can always count on something stupid to come out of Eddie's fly trap.
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fly trap

n. the mouth. Close your fly trap. You talk too much.
See also: fly, trap
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Venus Flytraps can "count" the times an insect touches it that make some form of short-term memory.
"The worst calls I have received are those of a bat stuck to freshly poured blacktop or to sticky flytraps placed outside.
Venus flytraps catch insects and spiders with their jaw-like leaves.
Tip AFTER putting yellow sticky flytraps in the greenhouse, use a mix of sugar and cooking fat to remove the stickiness from fingers.
M Muckelberg A Venus flytraps are bog plants and as such are usually planted in peat with some drainage added such as sharp sand, to replicate their natural environment.
All three species - and their variants - are winter hardy in the Mid-Atlantic, as are flytraps and many sundews.
The most famous snap-trap plant is the Venus flytrap. While house plant varieties can be purchased at a number of places, naturally occurring species of Venus flytraps are restricted to a small area in northeastern South Carolina and southeastern North Carolina.
An additional 60 flytraps of various cultivars in the second rosette stage were collected from a commercial plant nursery, referred to as "SWCP." These plants were included to introduce diversity in juvenile plant age to allow the effect of prey on growth to be ascertained across different juvenile rosette stages of growth in the study period.
His eyes look like they've been caught by Venus flytraps.''
He thinks pitcher plants and Venus flytraps are just gorgeous." In other words, he's a totally normal guy with a wife and two young boys, even though he does rent a 2,600-square-foot building for his meat-eating plants, visits them several times a week, and incorporates S.F.
Forget Venus flytraps. Bladderworts, of the genus Utricularia, are cunning meat eaters.
Like the carnivorous plant in the play The Little Shop of Horrors, Venus flytraps, bladderworts, sun dews, and other plants that digest insects and other small creatures were once considered unnatural.
After a thrilling rollercoaster ride through a disused mine, highly reminiscent of Indiana Jones, they encounter giant dandelions and mushrooms, a vast ocean, man-eating venus flytraps and dinosaurs.