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dodder
1[ dod-er ]
verb (used without object)
- to shake; tremble; totter.
dodder
2[ dod-er ]
noun
- a leafless parasitic plant, Cuscuta gronovii, having dense clusters of small, white, bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine about clover or flax.
dodder
1/ ˈdɒdə /
noun
- any rootless parasitic plant of the convolvulaceous genus Cuscuta , lacking chlorophyll and having slender twining stems with suckers for drawing nourishment from the host plant, scalelike leaves, and whitish flowers
dodder
2/ ˈdɒdə /
verb
- to move unsteadily; totter
- to shake or tremble, as from age
Derived Forms
- ˈdodderer, noun
- ˈdoddery, adjective
Other Words From
- dodder·er noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of dodder1
Origin of dodder2
Word History and Origins
Origin of dodder1
Origin of dodder2
Example Sentences
“There are examples of dodders flowering when their host isn’t flowering,” he says, so it remains unclear whether the parasites sometimes use other signals to flower.
By eavesdropping, a new study shows, using a chemical signal from the dodder’s host as its own.
The flowering protein also interacted with flowering-related genes in the dodders, which the researchers say is further evidence that FT kick-starts the whole process.
If a dodder flowers too soon, it won’t grow as large as it could have and will produce fewer seeds.
The cupbears found no drink for him in the Dodder (a river), and the Dodder had flowed through the house.
Found creeping like a small dodder-plant over other polyzoans, hydroids, and seaweeds.
Some called it Dodora, after the princess, and this was changed at last to 'dodder' by those who did not know.
Ivy ne'er clasp'd A dodder'd oak, as round the other's limbs The hideous monster intertwin'd his own.
Glenasmole, a fine valley about seven miles south of Dublin, through which the river Dodder flows.
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