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nardoo|nɑːˈduː, ˈnɑːduː|
Also nardu.
[Native Australian; also given as ngárdū and ardoo.]
1. The sporocarp of the plant Marsilea quadrifolia, used as food by the Australian aborigines; the flour made from this. Also attrib.
1861H. J. Wills in W. Howitt Discov. Austral. (1865) II. 248 Starvation on nardoo is by no means very unpleasant. 1861King Ibid. 252 The natives..gave in return some chewed pitchery and nardoo balls. 1862Kendall Poems 110 Lest unfriendly hands Should rob him of his hoard of wild nardoo. 1874Dusk Twilight Hour 134 They fished and hunted for their food, And gathered nardoo.
2. The plant Marsilea quadrifolia, also called clover-fern.
1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 670/2 Nardoo, a plant of the acotyledonous natural order Marsileaceæ. 1889C. Lumholtz Cannibals 41 On the banks of the Thompson river I observed the well-known nardu (Marsilea).
attrib.1865W. Howitt Discov. Austral. II. 247 They now began to inquire of the nardoo seed, imagining it the produce of a tree. 1866Treas. Bot. 777/1 Nardoo fields, probably swampy places in which it abounds. |