How to Use sundew in a Sentence

sundew

noun
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  • Many of those species, like the sundew, live nowhere else.
    — William Atkins, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • Feed one to two leaves of the sundew every week or two.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2016
  • The department says this is the first record of the plant growing in the state, which has other species of sundew.
    — Baltimore Sun, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2019
  • There are other species of sundew in Maryland, according to DNR.
    — USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
  • Dwarf sundew is an insectivorous plant with a unique way of catching its prey.
    — USA TODAY, 20 June 2019
  • Nitrogen and phosphorus from eating insects allows sundews to thrive in places where most plants can’t survive, like the acidic, nutrient-poor soil of swamps and bogs.
    — Popular Science, 13 May 2020
  • The delicate wetlands are home to rare native sundew, small carnivorous plants that attract insects to sticky residue on their leaves.
    — Don Thompson, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2017
  • The Cape sundew, as it’s often called, tolerates temperatures down to freezing and into the high 90s with ease, and with proper care, will reward you with stalks of purple flowers.
    — Sunset Magazine, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The lime-rich groundwater also helps to yield pitcher plants, insectivorous sundew and other plants.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2017
  • It is well stocked with various pitcher plants, bog orchids, violets, gentians, sundews and flytraps.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 3 July 2017
  • My favorite Alabama species are the carnivorous plants, such as Drosera (sundews) and Sarracenia (pitchers).
    — Greg Garrison, AL.com, 10 June 2017
  • The researchers also gathered carnivorous sundew plants (Drosera capensis), which have vibrant, sticky tentacles that bend to ensnare prey.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2017
  • In between, delicate yet deadly, thousands of sundews — tiny, carnivorous plants — sat patiently, holding red tentacles to the sun.
    — Henry Wismayer, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2016

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