dodder

IPA: dˈɑdɝ

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, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
A river in Ireland, a tributary of the Liffey.

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

Examples of "dodder" in Sentences

The word "dodder" signifies the plural of "dodd," a bunch of threads.
Reserachers also studied a certain parasitic weed called dodder (genus
In Lubeck, a marc, called dodder cake, is made from the _Camelina sativa_.
Oaks covered with dodder, that is, with parasitic plants, and therefore dead or dying.
Watching old people dodder around and go insane for long periods of time….there's nothing worse.
Houseboy lets himself in the gate, through the door, watches you dodder about, moves beyond the edges of your memory.
I was part of a group of 12 or so geezers who get together the third week in November every year and dodder around with rifles.
We would dodder around for hours, drink stale $9 beer, lose $50 worth of balls, and then sit in tunnel traffic for another sixty minutes.
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.