carnivorous plant
Bug-consuming botanical organism
A carnivorous plant captures and digests insects or other small animals to supplement nutrients unavailable in its environment.
These plants typically grow in nutrient-poor soils like bogs and use various trapping mechanisms—snap traps, sticky surfaces, pitfall chambers.
Venus flytraps, sundews, and pitcher plants are familiar examples.
The carnivorous plant had caught another fly.
- digestive enzymesFood-processing biological catalysts
- snap trapsSpring-loaded rodent catchers
- death trapPerilously unsafe place
- butterwortCarnivorous plant, sticky leaves
- bogsSoft, wet terrain
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