catchfly

Any of several plants, mostly in tribe Sileneae, that have sticky leaves on which flies become stuck; especially, the silenes or campions.

Noun

  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...

Origin

From catch + fly.

Forms

catchflies

Derived

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