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Definition of Sundews
1. sundew [n] - See also: sundew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sundews
Literary usage of Sundews
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters in Modern Botany by Patrick Geddes (1893)
"But he supposed that the insects were captured accidentally, and subsequently
allowed to escape. The Venus Fly-Trap, like its allies the sundews, ..."
2. Chapters in Modern Botany by Patrick Geddes (1893)
"The Venus Fly-Trap, like its allies the sundews, grows on the wet moorland.
A circle of more or less prostrate ..."
3. The Great World's Farm: Some Account of Nature's Crops and how They are Grown by Selina Gaye (1900)
"The sundews, British plants nearly related to the Fly-trap, openly catch prey,
... In the small space of one square foot, six sundews have been seen growing ..."
4. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"... plants found also on the flats and in the swamps of the coast plain, including
insectivorous sundews, bladderworts, and pitcher plants. ..."
5. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"... ^E.—sundews. Sepals 5, persistent, equal, with an imbricate aestivation,
Corolla of 5 nearly equal petals. Stamens distinct, either equal in number ..."
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