dodder

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɒdə/    美 /ˈdɑdɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of about 100–170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter. intransitive
    — Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.

词形变化

dodders present,singular,third-person doddering participle,present doddered participle,past doddered past dodders plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English daderen (“to quake, tremble”). Compare Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
词源 2
From Middle English doder (“flax dodder”), from Middle Dutch doder, from Old Dutch *doder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dodr (viz. theories of origin). Cognate with Middle Low German doder, West Flemish dodder.
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