| 释义 |
toich Geogr.|tɔɪx|
[a. Dinka.]
In Southern Sudan, a stretch of flat land near a river that is subject to annual flooding.
1948J. D. Tothill Agric. in Sudan vii. 136 The ‘toich’ lands..are primarily used as grazing lands. Ibid. 954 Toiches are a feature of Equatoria Province. 1955P. A. Buxton Nat. Hist. Tsetse Flies ix. 271 The same sharp edge may generally be observed in the southern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, at the boundary of the ‘toich’ or grassy flood-plain on cotton soil, with deciduous woodland on ironstone. 1974Nature 10 May 121/2 The site may have been subject to the type of annual flooding and partial drying which now occurs in ‘toich’ soils which adjoin rivers or ‘khors’ in the permanent swamps of the Sudd region in the southern Sudan. |