dionaea
See also: Dionaea
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek, a name of Aphrodite.
Noun
dionaea (plural dionaeas)
- (botany) Venus flytrap
- 2001, The Garden (volume 126, page 258)
- He managed, in his enthusiasm, to kill several dionaeas by closing the traps with the tip of a pencil as soon as they opened, eventually exhausting them.
- 2001, The Garden (volume 126, page 258)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dionaea in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)