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Meanings of dodder in English

Catalan
culejar
Spanish
avanzar a pasitos

Walk unsteadily.

        culejar
        Usage of dodder in English
        1
        Describes the only parasite on his wildflower list - the dodder.
        The new yorker
        2
        Here we describe the genome sequence of the parasitic field dodder, Cuscuta campestris.
        Pubmed
        3
        Why should she dodder over such a trifle as this prospective official marriage?
        The Drums of Jeopardy
        4
        The word "dodder" signifies the plural of "dodd," a bunch of threads.
        Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
        5
        Oaks covered with dodder, that is, with parasitic plants, and therefore dead or dying.
        Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
        6
        A field smothered in dodder looks like it has been attacked by Silly String.
        Wicked plants
        7
        It is a poor, unhappy furze-bush, covered with dodder.
        Woodside / or, Look, Listen, and Learn.
        8
        When you come to doddering, Jacob, it's better to dodder in the paths you know.
        Lady Rose's Daughter
        9
        The impurity most to be feared is dodder.
        Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
        10
        That stock-selling campaign will dodder through to the Final Memory of those who took part in it.
        Deep Furrows
        11
        I would be a village "character" of the sort that is justly said to "dodder."
        The Boss of Little Arcady
        12
        The dodder is what is called a parasitical plant; that is, a plant that lives entirely on another.
        Woodside / or, Look, Listen, and Learn.
        13
        The minute you dodder about a man or a woman, there's sure to be something' to dodder about.
        The Voice in the Fog
        14
        A single dodder can invade several plants, feeding on all of them at once and eventually killing them.
        Wicked plants
        15
        RFID tags could sound an alarm when they dodder out of range, or the oldsters could be tracked with GPS.
        Wired
        16
        Thus the dodder or "love vine," which so often ruins the clover crop, has seeds closely resembling clover seeds.
        Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
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        Translations for dodder
        Dodder through the time