| 单词 | round-leafed sundew | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasround-leafed sundew   Any of the small carnivorous herbaceous plants of the cosmopolitan genus  Drosera (family  Droseraceae), typically found in damp places and having rosettes of leaves covered with reddish glandular hairs secreting drops of a clear sticky fluid which glitter in the sun and attract and trap insects; esp. (more fully  common sundew,  round-leafed sundew,  round-leaved sundew) the European and North American species  D. rotundifolia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Droseraceae (sundew and allies) > 			[noun]		 rosa solis1568 ros solis1578 sundew1578 youthgrass1584 lust-wort1597 moor grass1597 red rot1597 youthwort1597 rose of the sun1631 drosera1801 dew-plant1869 1578    H. Lyte tr.  R. Dodoens Niewe Herball  iii. lxxi. 412  				Although that the Sonne do shine hoate..thereon, yet you shall finde it alwayes moyst..and for that cause it was called Ros Solis in Latine, whiche is to say in Englishe The dewe of the Sonne, or Sonnedewe [Fr. Rosée de Soleil, Du. Sondauw]. 1597    J. Gerard Herball  iii. 1366  				It is called in English Sunne deaw, Ros Solis, Youth woort: in the North parts Red rot, bicause it rotteth sheepe, and in Yorkeshire Moore grasse. 1648    J. Bobart Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis 45  				Rorella sive Rosa solis fol. rot., Round leaf'd Sundew. 1698    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 20 328  				Hairs like those on the Leaves of Sundew. 1757    J. Hill Eden 294  				The pearly Drops upon the Surface of the Leaves in this Plant, and in our common Sundew, are Secretions of the same Nature with the Fluid, which fills the strange Vase of the Nepenthes. 1790    Monthly Mag. Aug. 86/1  				The sundew is a very minute villous plant, usually growing entangled with moss, on peat bogs. 1840    J. Hodgson  & J. Raine Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II III.  ii. 360/2  				Drosera anglica, Greater Sundew. 1871    C. Kingsley At Last II. xii. 178  				The long-leaved Sundew, with its clammy-haired paws full of dead flies. 1911    W. I. Beecroft Who's Who among Wild Flowers 66  				Round-leaved Sundew: Dew-Plant. a1933    J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman 		(1934)	 I. xiii. 303  				Many insects..are devoured by..the insectivorous plants, such as the sundew and butterwort on the moor, the Venus's fly-trap in the Carolina swamps, and the pitcher-plant in the tropical forest. 1972    R. Adams Watership Down x. 41  				Pink lousewort with its sprays of hooked flowers, bog asphodel and the thin-stemmed blooms of the sun-dews, rising above their hairy, fly-catching mouths, all shut fast by night. 2016    Guardian 		(Nexis)	 24 Feb. (Science section)  				The sundew grows in boggy land where the soil is poor and the plant gets a big boost in nutrition with a diet of bugs. < as lemmas | 
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