noun
leafless parasitic vine with dense clusters of small white bell-shaped flowers on orange-yellow stems that twine around clover or flax
• Syn: ↑Cuscuta gronovii
• Hypernyms: ↑dodder
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cuscuta, ↑genus Cuscuta
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noun : dodder
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dodder2.
[1825-35, Amer.]
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love vine,
= dodder. (Cf. ↑dodder)
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n. the dodder, which is sometimes used medicinally and as a love charm
Useful english dictionary. 2012.