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sundew

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sun=dew

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sundew has 1 sense

sundew(n = noun.plant) daily dew, sundew plant - any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution; Array

is a kind of carnivorous plant

is a member of drosera, genus drosera

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sundew, n.

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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sundew, n. any small insect-consuming bog-plant of the family Droseraceae, esp. of the genus Drosera with hairs secreting drops of moisture.

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