verb
- walks unsteadily, typically because of old age or weakness
noun
- parasitic climbing plants that lack chlorophyll and obtain nutrients from host plants
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The elderly man dodders slowly down the hallway with his walker.
- She dodders across the room, still weak from her illness.
- The dodders wrapped around the garden plants, draining their nutrients.
- Farmers struggle to control dodders that attack their crops.
- He dodders to the mailbox each morning despite his unsteady gait.
- The botanist identified several species of dodders in the field.