DROSERA
\dɹˈə͡ʊzɹə], \dɹˈəʊzɹə], \d_ɹ_ˈəʊ_z_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of DROSERA
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
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the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants
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the genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants
By Princeton University
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A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.
By Oddity Software
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A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew.
By Noah Webster.
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A plant genus of the family Droseraceae, order Nepenthales, subclass Dilleniidae, class Magnoliopsida.
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dros'er-a, n. a genus of small herbaceous plants of the order Droseraceæ, generally inhabiting marshy places. [Formed from Gr. droseros--drosos, dew.]
By Thomas Davidson
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The sundew; of the pharmacists, Drosera rotundifolia. It yields droserin, a digestive ferment. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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[Gr., dewy], Sundew. A gen of. curious little plants, Exogens, ord. Droseraceae, natives of Britain, having leaves covered with viscid red glandular hairs, in which insects are caught, the plant being thus nourished. Mr. Darwin's researches upon the sundew are well known.
By Henry Percy Smith
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