noun
a genus of the family Droseraceae
• Syn: ↑genus Dionaea
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Droseraceae, ↑family Droseraceae, ↑sundew family
• Member Meronyms: ↑Venus's flytrap, ↑Venus's flytraps, ↑Dionaea muscipula
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/duy'euh nee"euh/, n.
the Venus's-flytrap.
[ < NL Dionaea (1773), the genus name < Gk Dionaía, fem. of Dionaîos pertaining to Dióne a metronymic name for Aphrodite; see DIONE]
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Dionaea /dī-ə-nēˈə/
noun
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), an American droseraceous insectivorous plant
ORIGIN: L, from Gr Diōnaiā Aphrodite, from her mother Diōnē
Useful english dictionary. 2012.