Crossword-Solution: SUNDEW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sundew | n. | 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. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SUNDEW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cousin of the Venus' flytrap | 1 answer |
| Flesh-eating plant | 1 answer |
| Fly-eating swamp plant | 1 answer |
| Herb plant native to bogs | 1 answer |
| Insect-eating plant named for the sticky droplets on its leaf | 1 answer |
| Sticky-leaved plant that feeds on insects | 1 answer |
| type of bog plant with leaves covered in sticky hairs | 1 answer |
| Moor grass | 2 answers |
| BRITISH carnivorous plant | 3 answers |
| BRITISH moorland plant | 4 answers |
| Bog plant | 4 answers |
| Insect-eating plant | 5 answers |
| CARNIVOROUS plant | 10 answers |
| insectivorous plant | 11 answers |
| Marsh plant | 46 answers |
| BRITISH plant | 51 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SUNDEW (5)
One might go far afield and gather less forceful indictments—the horrific spider spinning his trap for the unthinking fly; the lovely Drosera (Sundew) using its crimson calyx for a smothering-pit in which to seal and devour the victim of its beauty; the rainbow-colored jellyfish that spreads its prismed tentacles like streamers of great beauty, only to sting and torture all that falls within their radiant folds.
And as we have already seen a similar transmission of a stimulus was discovered by him in Sundew in 1860, so that in 1862 he could write to Hooker ("Life and Letters", III.
Darwin, he had, as we remember, to advertise for it, by sending a "note and query" to the magazines, asking where any account of the fly-catching of the leaves of sundew was recorded.
Treat selects for publication the observations of one particular day in July, when the sundew-leaves were unusually active; for their moods vary with the weather, and also in other unaccountable ways, although in general the sultrier days are the most appetizing: "At fifteen minutes past ten of the same day I placed bits of raw beef on some of the most vigorous leaves of Drosera longifolia.
The more common round-leaved sundew acts as well as the other by its bristles, and the leaf itself is sometimes almost equally prehensile, although in a different way, infolding the whole border instead of the summit only.
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Used 8 times in crossword archives (1976–2018).