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Definition of Dodders
1. dodder [v] - See also: dodder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodders
Literary usage of Dodders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"Even the general aspect of the latter plants is such that an American or European
seeing them for the first time instinctively regards them as dodders. ..."
2. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"The dodders (Cuscuta) come next in the order of parasitic evolution. The seeds,
which contain a small amount of reserve material, germinate in the ground ..."
3. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1913)
"... and almost immediately after germination become attached to a root, from which
they obtain the food necessary for their development. The dodders ..."
4. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the by George J Hagar (1910)
"The parasite dodders number about eighty species of the genus Cuscuta. Moray (mor
ni<'), Charles Auguste Louis Joseph (Duc de), 1811-65; French soldier and ..."
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