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dodder
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dodder, v.intr. tremble or totter, esp. from age.
Idiom
dodder-grass quaking-grass.
Derivative
dodderer n.
dodder, n. any climbing parasitic plant of the genus Cuscuta, with slender leafless threadlike stems.
Etymology
ME f. Gmc
THESAURUS
dodder
age, cheat the undertaker, cower, decline, fade, fail, get along, get on, grow old, halt, limp, quiver, shake, shrivel, sink, teeter, totter, tremble, turn gray, turn white, wane, waste away, wither, wizen, wrinkleFor further exploring for "dodder" in Webster Dictionary Online