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# sundew

noun (a sundew, sundews)

«sundew» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/#m1)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sundew» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sundew/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sundew» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sundew.html) on Mova free.