nardoo
Britishnoun
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any of certain cloverlike ferns of the genus Marsilea, which grow in swampy areas
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the spores of such a plant, used as food in Australia
Etymology
Origin of nardoo
C19: from a native Australian language
Example Sentences
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The Yandruwandha roasted the nardoo spores, ground the flour with water, and exposed the cakes to ash, each step making the thiaminase less toxic.
From BBC
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.
From Project Gutenberg
The explorers Burke and Wills vainly sought the means of sustaining life by eating flour made from the spore-cases of nardoo.
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Some friendly blacks, whom they amused by lighting fires with matches, gave them some fish and a kind of bread called nardoo.
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All day they toiled hard to prepare nardoo seed; but their small strength could not provide enough to support them.
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