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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/#x1)
- The drops on a sundew look like dew in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/#x2)
- Sundews grow in wet, boggy places. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/#x3)
- When an insect lands on a sundew, the leaf curls around it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/#x4)
- We grew a sundew on the classroom windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/#x5)
- Sundews and Venus flytraps are both meat-eating plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sundew» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.