Dodder

Definition: Dodder

Dodder

Noun

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

Verb

1. Walk unsteadily, as of small children.

Date "dodder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Synonyms: Dodder

Synonyms: coggle (v), paddle (v), toddle (v), totter (v), waddle (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: cuscuta (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Age	Be aged; Adjective: grow old, get old; Adjective: age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dodder

English words defined with "dodder": Acotyledon, Acotyledonous ♦ Cuscuta ♦ Dudder ♦ genus Cuscuta. (references)

"Dodder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "Dodder" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.65%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.35%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

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Language		Translations for "dodder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dridhem (blink, dither, flicker, flinch, give a start, pulsate, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble, twiddle, twitch, vibrate, wabble, waver, wince, wobble, writhe), tundem (budge, jiggle, jumble, niddle-noddle, nod, nutate, oscillate, quake, reel, rock, stagger, sway, swing, wabble, waddle, waggle, wamble, wobble), s'më mbajnë këmbët, kuskutë, eci duke u luhatur. (various references)

Arabic		‏تقدم بوهن, ‏إرتعش من ضعف. (various references)

Bulgarian		кукувича прежда, клатушкам се (joggle, niddle-noddle, seesaw, stagger, swing, wamble, wobble), дърдоря (cackle, gab, gabble, jabber, jaw, palaver, patter, prate, tattle). (various references)

Chinese		菟 (cuscuta). (various references)

Czech		třást se (quail, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble, vibrate, wobble). (various references)

Danish		silke arter (cuscuta, love wine, strangle weed), hoersilke (cuscuta, love wine, strangle weed). (various references)

Dutch		duivelsnaaigaren (clover dodder, cuscuta, lesser dodder, love wine, strangle weed), warkruid (cuscuta, love wine, strangle weed), cuscuta (cuscuta, love wine, strangle weed). (various references)

Farsi		کتان صحراءی(گ.ش.), لرزیدن (Dither, Flicker, Quail, Quake, Quiver, Shake, Shiver, Shudder, Throb, Tremble, Trill, Vibrate), تلوتلوخوردن (Lurch, Reel, Stagger, Stumble, Teeter, Totter, Vacillate, Wobble). (various references)

Finnish		humalanvieras (cuscuta, greater dodder, larger dodder, love wine, strangle weed). (various references)

French		tergiverser (dodge), ne pas tenir sur ses jambes, marcher difficilement, graine de caméline, cuscute, atermoyer. (various references)

German		schlottern (ba baggy, hang loosely, shiver, tremble). (various references)

Greek		κουσκούτα (cuscuta, love wine, strangle weed), επίθυμοσ, τρέμω (flicker, quake, quaver, quiver, shiver, tremble). (various references)

Hungarian		totyog (to dodder, to paddle, to toddle, to waddle, toddle), botorkál (flounder, to flounder, to fumble one's way, to stumble). (various references)

Indonesian		gemetar (oscillate, quaver, thrill). (various references)

Italian		tremare (dither, flutter, quake, quiver, shake, shiver, tremble). (various references)

Manx		lus y snaie, craa (bestrew, brandish, dither, flicker, flutter, jog, jolt, judder, quaver, ring, rustle, shake, shiver, shock, sprinkle, toss, toss of head, tremble, vibrate, warble, wave, wave of hand). (various references)

Pig Latin		odderday

Portuguese		cuscuta (cuscuta, love wine, strangle weed). (various references)

Romanian		tremura de slãbiciune, nu se putea ţine pe picioare. (various references)

Russian		ковылять (paddle, stumble along, toddle, totter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vilina kosa. (various references)

Spanish		decir tonterías (blather, drivel), temblar (quake, quaver, shake, shiver, tremble, trembling), cuscuta (cuscuta, love wine, strangle weed), chochear (be senile, dote), chocheado (doddered). (various references)

Swedish		darra (dither, flicker, palpitate, quake, quaver, quiver, shiver, throb, tremble, wobble), stappla (falter, hobble, stagger, stumble, totter), snarreva, skaka (chatter, concuss, jar, jolt, jounce, judder, quake, rattle, rock, shake, shiver, toss, upset, vibrate, wobble). (various references)

Thai		เ�"ินโซเซ (bumble, dodder along, lurch, roll, swag, teeter). (various references)

Turkish		titremek (dither, falter, flicker, flutter, jerk, judder, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shimmy, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), sendelemek (blunder, careen, falter, halt, lurch, pitch, reel, stagger, stumble, swing, teeter, topple, totter, waver, wobble), sallanmak (be slung from, bear away, dawdle, dilly dally, flap, flirt, hang about, hang around, hang down, hang on, hover, keep oneself close, loiter, lurch, oscillate, quake, rock, shake, sway, swing, take a swing, teeter, toss, vibrate, waggle, wave, waver, wobble), küsküt, bağbozan, şeytansaçı. (various references)

Ukrainian		мимрити (babble, gabble off, jabber, lip, mutter, splatter), повитиця, плентатися (drawl, inch along, lag, navigate, plug along, scuff, scuffle, shamble, trudge), дрижати (chatter, didder, flicker, quake, quiver, shiver, tingle, tremble, wabble, waver, wobble). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cuscuta spp.. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dodder": doddered, dodderer, dodderers, doddering, dodders, doddery. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dodder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bodedern, Daddeee, deder, Deuddwr, dider, doda, dodar, dodden, doddle, dode, dodel, Dodik, dodler, Dolder, donder, Dondero, dooder, duder, hodder, sodder, todder, toder. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: rodded.
	Words within the letters "d-d-d-e-o-r"
	-1 letter: odder.
	-2 letters: doer, dore, eddo, redd, redo, rode.
	-3 letters: doe, dor, odd, ode, ore, red, rod, roe.
	-4 letters: de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-d-d-e-o-r"
	+1 letter: dodders, doddery, prodded.
	+2 letters: dendroid, doddered, dodderer, drownded, foddered, resodded.
	+3 letters: discorded, dodderers, doddering, ramrodded, redounded.
	+4 letters: broadsided, deodorized, didgeridoo, didjeridoo, disordered, dogsledder, downgraded.
	+5 letters: biodegraded, didgeridoos, didjeridoos, disaccorded, dodecahedra, dogsledders, downtrodden, hundredfold, paddleboard, roundheaded, toddlerhood.
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