dodder

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The supporting cast gets to dodder about as magnified versions of Ibsen’s melodramatic figures, with Jamie Smithson a particular hoot as Hedda’s Olympian-grade nerd of a husband.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2019

And there are the plants that have strayed from their photosynthetic ways and turned to the dark side — the parasites, such as Cuscuta, or dodder.

From Nature • Feb. 28, 2017

Note that the vines of the dodder, which has white flowers, are beige.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Lithgow's Tobias is content to dodder on the margins, but when he's forced by Agnes to assume responsibility as head of the house, he summons the necessary strength.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2014

Timothy panted, “D’eye! We can relax a bit till dodder side 0 d’tempis’ hit us.”

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor