Steel trap (carnivorous plants)
Steel trap (sometimes written "steel-trap" or "steeltrap") is an informal term in the study of comparative plant physiology of the carnivorous plants. "Steel trap", more particularly "active steel trap", refers to prey capture devices such as occur in some members of the family Droseraceae, and in particular in the genera Dionaea ("Venus flytrap") and Aldrovanda ("waterwheel"). The term apparently originated with the author Francis Ernest Lloyd in 1942, in which he adopted the overly general term "steel trap" rather than say, "gin trap" or a more adjectival form, for devices such as the lobed trap leaves of Dionaea.
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Steel trap (carnivorous plants)
Steel trap (sometimes written "steel-trap" or "steeltrap") is an informal term in the study of comparative plant physiology of the carnivorous plants. "Steel trap", more particularly "active steel trap", refers to prey capture devices such as occur in some members of the family Droseraceae, and in particular in the genera Dionaea ("Venus flytrap") and Aldrovanda ("waterwheel"). The term apparently originated with the author Francis Ernest Lloyd in 1942, in which he adopted the overly general term "steel trap" rather than say, "gin trap" or a more adjectival form, for devices such as the lobed trap leaves of Dionaea.
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Steel trap (sometimes written ...... tentacles in the usual manner.
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Steel trap (sometimes written ...... lobed trap leaves of Dionaea.
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Steel trap (carnivorous plants)
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