dodders

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third-person singular of dodder
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{n} a kind of bad winding plant or weed
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It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems
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walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"
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any of several parasitic vines, of the genus Cuscuta, having small white flowers but no leaves
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to shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter
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{f} tremble weakly, shake
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It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc
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To shake, tremble, or totter
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Any of the leafless, twining, parasitic vines (see parasitism) that make up the genus Cuscuta (family Cuscutaceae), containing more than 150 species found throughout temperate and tropical regions. The stringlike stems may be yellow, orange, pink, or brown. Many species have been introduced with their host plants into new areas. Dodders contain no chlorophyll, instead absorbing water and food through rootlike organs called haustoria that penetrate the tissue of a host plant and may kill it. Dodder can do great damage to crops of clover, alfalfa, flax, hops, and beans. The best control is to remove the plant from fields by hand and to prevent its accidental introduction
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A plant of the genus Cuscuta
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a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems; obtain nourishment through haustoria
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and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it
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