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DAILY DEW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does daily dew mean?
• DAILY DEW (noun)
The noun DAILY DEW has 1 sense:
1. any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution
Familiarity information: DAILY DEW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
daily dew; sundew; sundew plant
Hypernyms ("daily dew" is a kind of...):
carnivorous plant (plants adapted to attract and capture and digest primarily insects but also other small animals)
Holonyms ("daily dew" is a member of...):
Drosera; genus Drosera (the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants)
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