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sundew - use in sentences
Converse of object
- insect-eating: Sweeps of purple flowering heather and sweet scented gorse dominate the heathland whilst the wetlands harbor insect-eating sundews and rare marsh gentians.
- include: Notable species include great sundew Drosera longifolia, S. pulchrum, S. imbricatum and S. fuscum.
Adjective modifier
- round-leaved: Less common specialities of these boggy areas include bog pimpernel, bog asphodel, round-leaved sundew and pale butterwort.
- great: The hollows, rich in S. cuspidatum, are occasionally fringed by great sundew Drosera anglica.
- leaved: The locally scarce oblong leaved sundew occurs on the site.
- carnivorous: Plants such as heathers and bog asphodels can live in the bogs, aswell as the carnivorous plant sundew, which catches small insects.
- long-leaved: Bog asphodel and the round and long-leaved sundews appear.
- round: Plants include mosses eg Sphagnum, cotton grass, purple moor grass, cranberry, marsh cinquefoil, marsh violet and round leaved sundew.
Modifies a noun
- plant: One sundew plant can catch as many as 2000 insects in one summer.
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