see also: Dodder
Verb
dodder (dodders, present participle doddering; past and past participle doddered)
- (intransitive) To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pp. 59-60.
- Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pp. 59-60.
- German: tattern
- Russian: трясти́сь
dodder (plural dodders)
- Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, recent genetic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
- angel hair, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, witch's hair
- French: cuscute
- German: Seide, Teufelszwirn
- Italian: cuscuta
- Portuguese: cuscuta
- Russian: : повили́ка
- Spanish: cuscuta
Dodder
Proper noun
- A river in Ireland, a tributary of the Liffey.
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