Definition of Droseras

1. Noun. (plural of drosera) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Droseras

1. drosera [n] - See also: drosera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Droseras

dropsy
dropsy of pericardium
dropt
droptop
droptops
dropwise
dropworm
dropworms
dropwort
dropworts
dropzone
dropzones
droschke
droschkes
drosera
droseras (current term)
droshkies
droshky
droskies
drosky
drosometer
drosometers
drosomycin
drosophila
drosophila heat-shock protein
drosophila melanogaster
drosophilas
drosophilidae
drosophilla melanogaster
drosopholid

Literary usage of Droseras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1853)
"I shall start again for the North in a few days; but I mean, before I go, to take up all the roots I can find of the bulbous droseras, and send them packed ..."

2. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1837)
"The droseras once constituted the sole ingredient from which was distilled the celebrated ... 684, there is a paper " OB the Cultivation of the droseras and ..."

3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1838)
"He thought the change of colour in the leaves of plants depended on their free exposure to light : the droseras mentioned had not been exposed to the free ..."

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