sudd
(in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.
Origin of sudd
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How to use sudd in a sentence
This lake is the home of many sudd plants of the "swimming" variety—papyrus and ambach are absent.
The Sudan government, however, sent engineering parties to remove the sudd blocks and open out a continuous waterway.
And Nod, having his mother's quick hand, made a great store of Manaka-cake and sudd-bread.
The Three Mulla-mulgars | Walter De La MareThe sudd, it is supposed, stopped the advance of the Roman centurions who were sent up the Nile in the days of Nero.
Baker cut through fifty miles of the sudd, and urged the khdive to reopen the Nile.
British Dictionary definitions for sudd
/ (sʌd) /
floating masses of reeds and weeds that occur on the White Nile and obstruct navigation
Origin of sudd
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