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Definition of Sundew family
1. Noun. A family of carnivorous herbs and shrubs.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sarraceniales, Sarraceniales
Member holonyms: Drosera, Genus Drosera, Dionaea, Genus Dionaea, Aldrovanda, Genus Aldrovanda, Drosophyllum, Genus Drosophyllum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sundew Family
Literary usage of Sundew family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"SUNDEW FAMiLY. Perennial or biennial glandular-pubescent herbs, exuding a copious
viscid secretion, mostly with basal leaves, circinate in the bud, ..."
2. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... sundew family. Bog-herbs, with regular flowers, on scapes ; leaves in a tuft
at the root, glandular-bristly or bristly-fringed, and rolled up from the ..."
3. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"sundew family (Droseraceae) Round-leaved Sundew; Dew-plant Drosera rotundifolia
Flowers—Small, white, growing in a 1-sided, curved raceme of buds chiefly. ..."
4. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany: A Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1895)
"... sundew family. Bog-herbs, with regular flowers, on scapes; leaves in a tuft
at the root, glandular-bristly or bristly-fringed, and rolled up from the ..."
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