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nardoo
/ ˈɑːː /
noun
- any of certain cloverlike ferns of the genus Marsilea, which grow in swampy areas
- the spores of such a plant, used as food in Australia
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of nardoo1
C19: from a native Australian language
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Example Sentences
The Yandruwandha roasted the nardoo spores, ground the flour with water, and exposed the cakes to ash, each step making the thiaminase less toxic.
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The blacks showed the hapless men how to gather the little black seeds of a grass called the nardoo, on which they mostly lived themselves.
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The great thing with the blacks was nardoo.
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They at once set about collecting nardoo; two of them were employed in gathering it, while one stayed in camp to clean and crush it.
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They laid him softly within the hut, and placed at his head enough of nardoo to last him for eight days.
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