Definition of Dionaea muscipula

1. Noun. Carnivorous plant of coastal plains of the Carolinas having sensitive hinged marginally bristled leaf blades that close and entrap insects.

Exact synonyms: Venus's Flytrap, Venus's Flytraps
Generic synonyms: Carnivorous Plant
Group relationships: Dionaea, Genus Dionaea

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dionaea Muscipula

Diocletian
Dioctophyma
Dioctophyma renale
Diodon holocanthus
Diodon hystrix
Diodontidae
Diodora apertura
Diogenean
Diogenes
Diogenes cup
Diomedea exulans
Diomedea nigripes
Diomedeidae
Diomedes
Dion
Dionaea muscipula (current term)
Dione
Dionean
Dionysia
Dionysiac
Dionysian
Dionysius
Dionysius the Elder
Dionysos
Dionysus
Diophantine
Diophantine equation
Diophantine equations
Diophantus
Dior

Literary usage of Dionaea muscipula

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue by Linnean society of London libr (1866)
"Description of the Dionaea muscipula. (Printed with the preceding.) 4to. Beschreibung der Dionaea muscipula; iibersetzt von JCD Schreber. ..."

2. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden by New York botanical garden (1908)
"Note on the electrical phenomena which accompany irritation of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula. Proc. Roy. Soc. London 21 : 495. 64. - . ..."

3. Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter by Peter Collinson (2002)
"[Dionaea muscipula, Venus' Flytrap] ' I wish Billy when he was with thee had taken but the least Sketch of It to save my Longing. ..."

4. Gartenflora: Monatsschrift Fur Deutsche und Schweizerische Garten- und by Eduard Regel (1876)
"3) Dionaea muscipula L. Stammt aus den Mooren der südlichen Staaten Nord- amerika's, wo sie in ähnlicher Weise zu wachsen scheint, wie bei uns die Drosera- ..."

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