verb
- to walk unsteadily or shakily, especially due to old age or weakness
noun
- a parasitic plant with thin, yellow, thread-like stems that twines around other plants
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The elderly man began to dodder as he walked across the room.
- She watched her grandfather dodder down the hallway with his cane.
- The dodder wrapped around the tomato plants in the garden.
- Farmers consider dodder a serious weed because it weakens crops.
- He didn’t want to dodder like his father had in his final years.
- The yellow dodder created a tangled mess in the flower bed.