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verb-intransitive. To shake or tremble, as from old age; totter.

verb-intransitive. To progress in a feeble, unsteady manner.

n. Any of various leafless, annual parasitic herbs of the genus Cuscuta that lack chlorophyll and have slender, twining, yellow or reddish stems and small whitish flowers.

v. To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.

n. 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.

n. A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it.

v. To shake, tremble, or totter.

n. The common name of plants of the genus Cuscuta, a group of very slender, branched, twining, leafless, yellowish or reddish annual parasites, belonging to the natural order Convolvulaceæ.

To shake; tremble.

n. The various dodders are named, for the most part, from their principal host or from some leading character, and the specific names are usually translations of vernacular ones or vice versa. See the following phrases.

v. walk unsteadily

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

"The physician and herbalist John Gerard observed in 1597 that a pernicious crop-killer called dodder, or strangleweed, "changeth and altereth" according to its companion plants."

doddered    doddering    dodders   

walk   

field -dodder    hazel-dodder    lesser dodder    button-bush dodder    lucerne-dodder    beaked dodder    glomerate dodder    clover-dodder    gronovius's dodder    thyme-dodder   

doddery    doddering    dodderer   

bedridden    weak-minded    decrepit    gray-headed    toothless    bandy-legged    senile    double-dyed    bumble    half-paralyzed