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nardoo

/ ˈɑːː /

noun

  1. any of certain cloverlike ferns of the genus Marsilea, which grow in swampy areas
  2. the spores of such a plant, used as food in Australia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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