What's the difference between dodder and strangleweed?
Dodder
Definition:
(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. t. & i.) To shake, tremble, or totter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy-six nurses completed the Miller-Dodder Revision of the Palmore Facts on Ageing Quiz and the Kogan Attitudes Towards Old People Scale before and after participating in the CE programme.
(2) Macmillan was transformed overnight from "Supermac" into a doddering old Edwardian twit.
(3) Or do those doddering gentleman at the FA insist that we don't go higher than 50?"
(4) • 6 Nassau Street, opposite Trinity College park, kilkennyshop.com Kris Bär River rhino mystery Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Panoramio.com South Dublin’s river is the beautiful Dodder, famed for its rich and varied wildlife.
(5) (At least Riva was still able to act, which gave her a way of defending herself; by contrast Haneke cast Annie Girardot as a doddering matriarch in Hidden at a time when Alzheimer's disease had left her unsure of who she was.)
(6) Doddering up to speed, the boat dragged through the oil until the bow suddenly rose up on what, a thousand-year-old cypress stump or one of a million abandoned pipelines?
(7) "I see people aged 67 or 68 at class reunions who dodder around and are constantly going to the doctor," he said at a meeting of economists.
(8) Along its banks you can spot bats, kingfishers, otters … and, erm, the Dodder Rhino.
(9) (Layabout sibling Willow was a doddering six-year-old by the time her own acting career began).
(10) Back in 2002 he appeared overnight, without fanfare, within the Dodder’s waters.
(11) In 2008, while serving as prime minister, he described "doddering" pensioners as tax burdens who should take better care of their health.
(12) "I see people aged 67 or 68 at class reunions who dodder around and are constantly going to the doctor," he said.