Definitions for sundews

sundews sun·dew

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

Sundews is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in sundews (denssuw).

Definitions for sundews

noun

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

Origin of sundews

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

Examples for sundews

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for sundews
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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