The minute youdodder about a man or a woman, there's sure to be something' to dodder about.
In Lubeck, a marc, called dodder cake, is made from the Camelina sativa.
I dare say we'll manage to dodder along, as Amy calls it, and rub it into old Claflin as we've been doing.
And all we did was to go ahead and dodder along and beat Claflin seven to nothing!
The best known case is the common Christmas mistletoe, and the dodder (Figure 68), but there are hundreds of others.
The cupbears found no drink for him in the Dodder (a river), and the Dodderhad flowed through the house.
It generally participates of the nature of the plant which it climbs upon; but the Dodder of Thyme is accounted the best, and is the only true Epithymum.
Wherever the Dodder thread twines round a hop or other plant, it puts out small suckers which drive their way into the stem of the hop and take from it all the food which the Dodder requires.
Some climbing plants do throttle or choke the trunks of young trees if they twine round them too closely, but the Dodder has an entirely special and peculiar way of supporting itself to the detriment of others.
Like the lowly dodder the mistletoe is a climber that has discovered large opportunities of theft in ascending the stem of a supporting plant.
Watch the stem of a sister dodder as it rises from the earth day by day, and it will be observed to clasp a stalk of flax very tightly; so tightly that its suckers will absorb the juices of its unhappy host.
However this may be, the naturalist's attention is attracted every time he finds a plant deprived of chlorophyl, and one in which the leaves seem to be wanting, as in the dodder that occupies us.
The Dodder now grows rapidly, giving off branches which search in all directions for additional supports, sometimes climbing from one plant to another, and producing new suckers whenever a favourable situation has been reached.
The Dodder plant now withers, leaving, in the autumn, its dead tangles of climbing filaments still attached to the withered herbs on which it fed, or to the branches of the tree which served as its host.
Old-fashioned books tell us that the mistletoe is a perfect parasite, while the dodder is an imperfect one; and I believe almost all botanists will still repeat the foolish saying to the present day.
If it stopped there, and then produced leaves of its own, like the honeysuckle and the clematis, there would be no great harm done: and the dodder would be but another climbing plant the more in our flora.
This broomrape has acquired somewhat the same habits as the other plant, only that it fixes itself on the roots of clover or broom, from which it sucks nutriment by its own root, as the dodder does by its stem-suckers.
How the dodder acquired this curious mode of life it is not difficult to see.
The injury done to flax, clover, hop and bean crops by species of dodder is often very great.
After making a few turns round one stem the dodder finds its way to another, and thus it continues twining and branching till it resembles "fine, closely-tangled, wet catgut.
She loathed that sort of person, the fallen women off the accommodation walk beside the Dodder that went with the soldiers and coarse men with no respect for a girl's honour, degrading the sex and being taken up to the police station.
It is interesting, for instance, to compare the drawings of the Dodder (Text-figs.
The most attractive is perhaps that of the Dodder climbing on a plant with flowers and pods (Text-fig.
As an example of a wood-cut, which has lost much of its character in copying, we may take the Dodder (cf.
It germinates its seeds in the ground, and the slender stem rises until it comes in contact with some living plant, when the root dies and the Dodder gets its nourishment from its host by means of numerous little suckers.
Common Dodder (Cuscuta Gronovii) is a very common little parasitic plant found in moist, shady thickets or among the shrubs and plants bordering ponds or streams.
Like tangled yellow yarn wound spirally about the herbage and shrubbery in moist thickets, the dodder grows, its beautiful bright threads plentifully studded with small flowers tightly bunched.
The plant is a conspicuous sufferer from the dodder (q.
The dodder seed germinates in the soil, and the plant attaches itself to the alfalfa, losing its connection with the soil and forming a mass of very fine vines that reach out to other alfalfa plants.
When the dodder is too widely distributed throughout the field to permit of this treatment, the only course is to plow the field at once, and to grow cultivated crops for two or three years.
It is believed that no variety of dodder produces seed freely in the eastern states, and that the hay made from the first crop of alfalfa or red clover will not contain any seed of this pernicious plant.
I could have ridden over to Barnstaple with your letter quicker than Samson did, and I shouldn't have tired Dodder so much.
When the seed of a dodder dropped into the ground begins to grow, it feels about for the kind of plant it wants to live upon: if it cannot find it, it dies.
The dodder is what is called a parasitical plant; that is, a plant that lives entirely on another.
There are thousands of little dodder plants sucking the life out of the furze.
If boiled," says Hill, "with a little ginger, the dodder in decoction works briskly as a purge.
The parasitic dodderis a serious enemy in some parts of New York State.
The dodder then loses its hold upon the soil and gets its food entirely from the alfalfa plants, which it ultimately destroys.
But since the seeds of the dodder remain at least for a time in the soil, and the adjacent soil becomes infected with them, the circles in which the dodder feeds continually widen.
The seeds of alfalfa sometimes become so impregnated with the seeds of dodder that the latter will grow where the seed is sown, thus introducing it to new centers.
Dodder is a parasitical plant introduced, probably, in seed from Europe, which feeds upon alfalfa plants, to their destruction.
The dodder starts in the soil and soon throws up its golden-colored thread-like stems, which reach out and fasten on the alfalfa plants that grow sufficiently near.
We understand that during his visit to London Professor Stormbarner will stay with Mr. David Dodder at Hampstead, but will spend a week-end with Mr. Lloyd George at Walton Heath.
Dodder and Dodder, at which their principal authors will speak at thirteen different platforms, and a resolution will be simultaneously moved by blast of trumpet that Professor Stormbarner is the greatest novelist in the world.
Probably, however, the easiest plan is to depasture the crop,—certainly not to seed it down—in which case it will be impossible for any dodder seeds to ripen.
While the flax is getting still taller, the dodder sends out rootlets, which pierce and fix themselves into the flax.
Meanwhile the flax in growing lifts the dodder out of the soil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dodder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
