Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sundew"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sundew \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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sundew
n : any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves
covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects;
cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: {sundew plant}, {daily
dew}]
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