sundew

«sundew» in Mova's school dictionary: A small meat-eating plant that grows in boggy places and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sundew, sundews)

meaning for a pupil

A small meat-eating plant that grows in boggy places and has leaves covered in sticky, shining hairs that trap and digest insects. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons it is an example of a carnivorous plant, like the Venus flytrap, which gets extra food from insects because bog soil is poor. Phrases: carnivorous plant, sticky leaves.

examples

• A sundew catches flies with its sticky leaves. tree →
• The drops on a sundew look like dew in the sun. tree →
• Sundews grow in wet, boggy places. tree →
• When an insect lands on a sundew, the leaf curls around it. tree →
• We grew a sundew on the classroom windowsill. tree →
• Sundews and Venus flytraps are both meat-eating plants. tree →

note

Countable. From sun + dew, because the sticky drops shine. It does not eat people or big animals, only small insects.

In the corpora

• Charles Darwin wrote a whole book on insect-eating plants and tested sundews with tiny bits of meat and hair.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sundew» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.