Definitions for sundew

sundew sun·dew

Spelling: [suhn-doo, -dyoo]
IPA: /ˈsʌnˌdu, -ˌdyu/

Sundew is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in sundew (densuw).

Definitions for sundew

noun

  1. any of several small, carnivorous bog plants of the genus Drosera, having sticky hairs that trap insects.

Origin of sundew

1570-80; Dutch sondauw (compare German Sonnentau), translation of Latin rōs sōlis dew of the sun

Examples for sundew

The same process takes place in the sundew (Fig. 104, N) where, however, the mechanism is somewhat different.

No little creature of tender wing ever touches a sundew except under penalty of death.

The member of this species best known to British botanists is the sundew.

In the nearly related land form, Pinguicula, however, there is much the same arrangement as in the sundew.

In a small marsh near the end of the garden were some plants of the sundew.

Again, the mossy bog may glisten in the sun, and thousands of sundew plants with their pink leaves are growing upon the surface.

He speaks in one of his letters of his intention of working at sundew as a rest from the Descent of Man.

One of these, the sundew, has leaves which are covered on one side with tiny glandular hairs.

Closely related to the sundew is the Venus fly-trap (Diona muscipula, Ellis).

One might see the same spirit in his way of speaking of sundew, earthworms, &c.

Word Value for sundew
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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