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Webster 1913 Edition
Sundew
Sun′dewˊ
,Noun.
(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
.