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sundew

sundew noun: any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.

sundew: any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets...
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Noun

sundew (plural sundews)

  1. Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.
    • I had always been fascinated by the way the sundew attracts insects with its bright color and false promise of nectar.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 553

sundew meaning in Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese

sundew in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

sundew in Thai

group of insectivorous plants
หยาดน้ำค้าง yàat-nám-káang

sundew in Vietnamese

group of insectivorous plants
gọng vó

Forms of sundew

pluralsundews

Origin of sundew

From sun + dew. Cognate with Dutch zonnedauw, Icelandic sóldögg, German Sonnentau.

Words formed from sundew

Questions about sundew

What does sundew mean?
Sundew means any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leaves and grow in boggy ground all over the world.
What is sundew in Tamil?
Sundew in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Sundew meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sundew?
Sundew is a noun.
What is the plural of sundew?
The plural of sundew is sundews.

Words near sundew in the dictionary

  1. sunderment
  2. sunderments
  3. sunders
  4. sunders out
  5. Sundes
  6. sundew
  7. sundews
  8. sundial
  9. sundials
  10. Sundin
  11. Sundins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sundew (page history and authors); sundew (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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