catchfly
nounUS /ˈkæt͡ʃ.flaɪ/
Etymology From catch + fly.
1
Any of several plants, mostly in tribe Sileneae, that have sticky leaves on which flies become stuck; especially, the silenes or campions.
- “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177:
- Derived terms
- alpine catchfly, berry catchfly, bladder catchfly, catchfly grass, corn catchfly, Dover catchfly, dwarf catchfly, forked catchfly, forking catchfly, garden catchfly, German catchfly, Lobel's catchfly, night-flowering catchfly, nodding catchfly, red catchfly, rock catchfly, sand catchfly, sleepy catchfly, sticky catchfly, sweet william catchfly, Swiss catchfly, western fringed catchfly