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Webster 1913 Edition


Sundew

Sun′dewˊ

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Noun.
(Bot.)
Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also
lustwort
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Definition 2024


sundew

sundew

English

Noun

sundew (plural sundews)

  1. Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leafs and grow in boggy ground all over the world.

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