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Meaning of SUNDEW

Pronunciation:  'sun`doo

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution
 
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 Synonyms: daily dew, sundew plant
 
 See Also: carnivorous plant, Drosera, genus Drosera

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sun"dew`\, n. (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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