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What is a sundew?

What is a sundew? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of a group of insectivorous plants in the genus Drosera that catch insects by sticky droplets ("dew") at the end of hairs on the leafs and grow in boggy ground all over the world.
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Other antitussives in these parts include coltsfoot, mullein, sundew, and plantain.
No little creature of tender wing ever touches a sundew except under penalty of death.
There are also rare plants like the insectivorous sundew, shrubby birch, marsh saxifrage, and Charles' sceptre.
The site was remarkably colonized by the round-leaved sundew, Drosera rotundiflora.
He speaks in one of his letters of his intention of working at sundew as a rest from the Descent of Man.
There, while hunting for the rare bog orchid, he stumbled on the minuscule, insectivorous sundew plant, Drosera rotundifolia.

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