sundew
IPA: sˈʌndu
noun
- 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 leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.
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Examples of "sundew" in Sentences
- Thanks for the feedback on the sundew article.
- I'm glad to know those sundew stubs are useful.
- This is somewhat analogous to the carnivorous plant sundew.
- It is also called the Adelaide sundew or lance leaved sundew.
- This sundew does best with high humidity and cool temperatures.
- The leaves of the common sundew are arranged in a basal rosette.
- The cab of the massive dragline excavator Sundew is on display here.
- The cape sundew is among the easiest of carnivorous plants to keep indoors.
- Around the lake are rare plants such as cowslips and the carnivorous sundew.
- The savanna understory includes an endemic insectivorous sundew (Drosera indica).
- Two Heliamphoras pulchella and minor ‘Chiamanta’, two pots of Utricularia nelumbifolia, a bromeliad that has a utric plantlet in it, and a sundew:
- Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes.
- Bogs support some of the most interesting plants in the United States (like the carnivorous sundew), and provide habitat to animals threatened by human encroachment.
- This terrarium contains examples of the Australian lance-leafed sundew (Drosera adelae) and the delicate triggerplant (Stylidium debile), both of which are carnivorous.
- From pillows of sphagnum that over millennia have built up this extraordinary place, carmine glitter of round-leaved sundew attracts the eye, slowly digesting its captured insect-life.
- As we crossed the Station Heath on our way back, I checked the damp peat for sundew plants, and they too were still there, leaves unfurled so an unwary insect might trigger their honeyed, deliquescent tentacles.
- Out with Barry Goater watching tiny flies struggling in the clutches of the science-fiction sundew plants on Dyke Heath, we also clocked two new birds to add to the ninety species already listed in the log: a pair of hobbies, the male perched on a stump, and a spotted flycatcher.
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