1) Carnivorous plant 2) Cosmopolitan in distribution 3) Daily dew 4) Fly-eating swamp plant 5) Herb plant native to bogs 6) Insect-eating plant 7) Mining equipment 8) Sundew plant
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[dragline] Sundew was a large electrically powered dragline excavator used in mining operations in Rutland and Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. Built by Ransomes & Rapier and named after the winning horse of the 1957 Grand National, it began work in a Rutland iron ore quarry belonging to the United Steel Companies (Ore Mining Branch)...
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• (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.
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any plant of the genus Drosera, family Droseraceae, which contains about 100 annual and perennial species of flowering plants notable for their ... [3 related articles]
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(Drosera) These tender perennials (Sundew) are very interesting, insectivorous plants found wild in bogs from southern Japan to eastern China and south to New Zealand. Sundews may grow up to 8 inches high and from May to August, produce thin, leafless stalks, 6 to 12 inches long, of white, crimson, or pink flowers. One flower opens each day, starti...
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Sun'dew` noun (Botany) 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. Cal...
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[
n] - any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects
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sundew plant noun 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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Any of a group of insectivorous plants found growing in bogs; sticky hairs on the leaves catch and digest insects that land on them. (Genus
Drosera, family Droseraceae.)
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any of several small, carnivorous bog plants of the genus Drosera, having sticky hairs that trap insects. Also called
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