lustwort

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lustwort - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lustwort \Lust"wort`\ n. (Bot.)
     See Sundew.
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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 inward like
     tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort.
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