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Lustwort
(gcide) | Lustwort \Lust"wort`\ n. (Bot.)
See Sundew.
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lustwort
(gcide) | 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.
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Lustwort
(gcide) | Lustwort \Lust"wort`\ n. (Bot.)
See Sundew.
[1913 Webster]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.
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