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sundew
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.
Wiktionary
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.
WordNet
n. any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: sundew plant, daily dew]
Wikipedia
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 iron ore quarry belonging to the United Steel Companies (Ore Mining Branch) that year. At the time of its construction Sundew was the largest walking dragline in the world, weighing . With a reach of and a bucket capacity of the machine was able to move a substantial amount of material in a relatively short period.
Propulsion was via two large movable feet which could be used to "walk" the dragline forwards and backwards, while directional control was provided by a large circular turntable under the body of the machine.
Sundew remained until operations at the quarry ceased in 1974 and plans were then devised to relocate the machine to a recently opened British Steel Corporation quarry near Corby. At a cost of £250,000 and taking two years to complete, it was decided that dismantling, moving and reconstructing the machine was not a viable option, and so over an eight-week period in 1974 Sundew walked from its home in Exton Park near the village of Exton in Rutland to a site north of Corby. During the walk the dragline crossed three water mains, four water courses, 13 power lines, ten roads, a railway line, two gas mains, seven telephone lines, 74 hedges, and the River Welland before reaching its new home.
As part of a major restructuring of British Steel in the late 1970s Corby Steelworks was closed down, and there was no longer any need for a large dragline to assist in the recovery of iron ore. On 4 July 1980 Sundew walked to its final resting place and the huge boom was lowered onto a purpose-built earth mound. There it remained for seven years until being scrapped over a six-month period from January to June 1987. The cab is preserved at Rutland Railway Museum which is now known as Rocks By Rail – The Living Ironstone Museum. In 2014 the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £8,100 for its restoration.
Sundew can refer to:
- The plant genus Drosera
- The sundew family, Droseraceae
- The ship, USCGC Sundew (WLB-404)
- The dragline excavator, Sundew (dragline)
- SunDew, the original name for NeWS, a computer windowing system.
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.