单词 | roundleaved sundew |
释义 | > as lemmasround-leaved sundew round-leaved sundew n. the common sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, which has rounded leaves. ΚΠ 1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora iv. 105 Round-leaved Sundew. Leaves orbiculate, stems naked. 1827 Time's Telescope: Guide to Almanack 260 The round leaved sundew, which is by far the most common, has reddish-coloured leaves about the size of a sixpence. 1929 Times 26 Sept. 15/6 In the moist bottom are colonies of the round-leaved sundew, its flat-laid racket-shaped leaves blackened with the wasted corpses of midges. 2003 Guardian 10 Mar. i. 10/5 The round-leaved sundew..could become Sutherland's emblem. round-leaved 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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