sudd

[ suhd ]

noun

1. (in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.

sudd

/ sʌd /

noun

1. floating masses of reeds and weeds that occur on the White Nile and obstruct navigation

Word History and Origins

Origin of sudd¹

1870–75; < Arabic: literally, obstruction

Word History and Origins

Origin of sudd¹

C19: from Arabic, literally: obstruction

Example Sentences

This lake is the home of many sudd plants of the "swimming" variety—papyrus and ambach are absent.

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The Sudan government, however, sent engineering parties to remove the sudd blocks and open out a continuous waterway.

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And Nod, having his mother's quick hand, made a great store of Manaka-cake and Sudd-bread.

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The sudd, it is supposed, stopped the advance of the Roman centurions who were sent up the Nile in the days of Nero.

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Baker cut through fifty miles of the sudd, and urged the khdive to reopen the Nile.

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