Webster's 1913 Dictionary
NARDOO
NARDOO Nar *doo ", n. (Bot. )
Defn: An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.
New American Oxford Dictionary
nardoo
nardoo |nɑːˈduː, ˈnɑːduː | ▶noun an Australian fern with long stalks bearing either silvery-green clover-like lobes or woody globular cases containing spores, growing typically in water in areas of intermittent flooding. ●Marsilea drummondii, family Marsiliaceae. • [ mass noun ] a food made from the spores of the nardoo, traditionally eaten by Aborigines: [ as modifier ] : nardoo flour. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from an Aboriginal language.
Oxford Dictionary
nardoo
nardoo |nɑːˈduː, ˈnɑːduː | ▶noun an Australian fern with long stalks bearing either silvery-green clover-like lobes or woody globular cases containing spores, growing typically in water in areas of intermittent flooding. ●Marsilea drummondii, family Marsiliaceae. • [ mass noun ] a food made from the spores of the nardoo, traditionally eaten by Aborigines: [ as modifier ] : nardoo flour. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from an Aboriginal language.
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