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sundew
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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 ...
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Sundew \Sun"dew`\, n. (Bot.) 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 ...
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n. 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 leafs and grow in boggy ground all over the world.
Usage examples of sundew.
Good instances of such homologous cures are afforded by the common Buttercup, the wild Pansy, and the Sundew of our boggy marshes.
Though flytraps were worth more, they were mixed in with sundews of much lower point value.
SCORCH MARKS ON BAG DEER PARK WATER PLANTERS CHEESE CRACKERS FOUND AT SECONDARY CRIME SCENE - MILL BROWN PAINT ON PANTS SUNDEW PLANT CLAY PEAT MOSS FRUIT JUICE PAPER FIBERS STINKBALL BAIT SUGAR CAMPHENE ALCOHOL KEROSENE YEAST Then he studied the map, eyes tracing the course of the Paquenoke River as it made its way from the Great Dismal Swamp through Blackwater Landing and meandered west.
The very plants were unknown to them--pink lousewort with its sprays of hooked flowers, bog asphodel and the thin-stemmed blooms of the sundews, rising above their hairy, fly-catching mouths, all shut fast by night.
You see hundreds of Venus flytraps, sundews and pitcher plants around bays -probably because the ponds promote insects.
Several skyhooks have unfurled in equatorial orbit around the earth like the graceful fernlike leaves of sundews, ferrying cargo and passengers to and from orbit.