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  2. a type of yellow or orange plant that lives and feeds on other plants: The spindly orange vine known as dodder is a parasitic plant. Dodders are examples of ectoparasites, living outside the host, but attached to it by feeding organs. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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  3. The meaning of DODDER is any of a genus (Cuscuta) of wiry twining vines of the morning-glory family that are highly deficient in chlorophyll, are parasitic on other plants, and have tiny scales instead of leaves. How to use dodder in a sentence.

  4. dodder in British English. (ˈdɒdə ) noun. any rootless parasitic plant of the convolvulaceous genus Cuscuta, lacking chlorophyll and having slender twining stems with suckers for drawing nourishment from the host plant, scalelike leaves, and whitish flowers. Collins English Dictionary.

  5. When you dodder, you walk in a shaky or trembling way. You're most likely to see older people dodder, moving slowing and unsteadily. People usually dodder because of illness, disability, or the fragility of very old age.

  6. dodder. (ˈdɒdə) n. (Plants) any rootless parasitic plant of the convolvulaceous genus Cuscuta, lacking chlorophyll and having slender twining stems with suckers for drawing nourishment from the host plant, scalelike leaves, and whitish flowers. [C13: of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch, Middle Low German dodder, Middle High German toter]

  7. noun. any rootless parasitic plant of the convolvulaceous genus Cuscuta , lacking chlorophyll and having slender twining stems with suckers for drawing nourishment from the host plant, scalelike leaves, and whitish flowers.

  8. Dodder definition: To shake or tremble, as from old age; totter.