dodder

Meanings

Verb

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

Noun

• 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 (family), it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

Related

Similar words

• angel hair, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, witch's hair

Origin

• From Middle English daderen
• From Middle English doder, from Middle Dutch *dôder, from Old Dutch *doder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dodr.