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Dodder

noun

A leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria.

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"Dodder" Quotes from Famous Books

... agitate, jar, jolt, convulse, concuss, jounce, dodder, tremble, trill, shiver, totter, joggle, jiggle, ...

— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... prominent. In spite of all this, practice in rouging might have helped her a little, but she had had no practice. Young men never came to the house, and it was not worth while to keep up appearances for the old ones who were content to dodder at the end of the way. You would say at a glance that she was a very strong and enduring person, somewhat along the lines of a suffragette ...

— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon

... sides, thrusting out their prickly sprays covered with orange and yellow blossom and encroached all they could; the heather sprouted and slowly crept here and there, in company with a lovely fine grass that would have made a lover of smooth lawns frantic with envy. Over the heath, ling, and furze the dodder wreathed and wove its delicate tangle, and the thrift raised its lavender heads to nod with satisfaction at the way in which all the plants and wild shrubs were doing ...

— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn

... idiot ass Hungry for the fragrant fodder, Placed between two bales of grass, Lo, I doubt, delay, and dodder! ...

— A Little Book of Western Verse • Eugene Field

Words linked to "Dodder" : genus Cuscuta, waddle, walk, love vine, Cuscuta, vine, Cuscuta gronovii