sundew

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sundew - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

sundew - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sundew
      n 1: 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,
           sundew plant, daily dew]