nardoon.

Brit.

/nɑːˈduː/,

/ˈnɑːduː/, U.S.

/ˌnɑrˈdu/,

/ˈnɑrˌdu/, Australian English

/nʌːˈduː/,

/ˈnʌːduː/

Forms: 1800s nardo, 1800s nardu, 1800s– nardoo. Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Diyari. Etymon: Diyari ngardu.

Etymology: < Diyari (South Australia) ngardu, or a similar form in neighbouring languages of South Australia, south-eastern Queensland, and western New South Wales.

Chiefly Australian.

1. Any of several semiaquatic Australian ferns of the genus Marsilea (family Marsileaceae), which have creeping rhizomes and clover-like fronds and grow typically in water in areas of intermittent flooding; esp. M. drummondii.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns

mountain parsley1578

female fern1597

rock parsley1597

spleenwort1597

marsh fern1686

prickly fern1764

parsley fern1777

sensitive fern1780

lady fern1783

stone-brake1796

mountain fern1800

rock brake1802

walking leaf1811

todea1813

shield-fern1814

Woodsia1815

mangemange1817

cinnamon fern1818

climbing fern1818

bladder-fern1828

king fern1829

filmy fern1830

ostrich fern1833

New York fern1843

mokimoki1844

rhizocarp1852

film-fern1855

nardoo1860

gymnogram1861

holly-fern1861

limestone-polypody1861

elk-horn1865

Gleichenia1865

lizard's herb1866

cliff brake1867

kidney fern1867

Christmas fern1873

Prince of Wales feathers1873

Christmas shield fern1878

buckler-fern1882

crape-fern1882

stag-horn1882

ladder fern1884

oleander fern1884

stag fern1884

resam1889

lip-fern1890

coral-fern1898

bamboo fern1930

pteroid1949

fern-gale-

1860 Trans. & Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria 203 Intelligence..reached Melbourne of the value, as an edible seed, of the Marsileae hirsuta (or Nardo) as found so useful in the Victorian Expedition.

1889 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals 41 On the banks of the Thompson river I observed the well-known nardu (Marsilea).

1963 Austral. Encycl. I. 34/1 The dampers form a staple food among inland tribes where several plants, particularly claytonia and nardoo, produce enormous quantities of seeds.

1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 July 35/1 Marsilea, also known as nardoo, is found in damp places in many parts of Queensland.

1997 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 23 Mar. c6 The two men died trying to dine only on seed of a small fern called nardoo, which was toxic if not removed from its husk, as Aborigines had learned to do.

2001 Brisbane News (Nexis) 21 Nov. The common nardoo (marsilea drummondii) is a native perennial fern with foliage resembling a four-leafed clover.

2. Sporocarps of this plant collectively, as gathered by Australian Aboriginal people; flour made from this, used as food.

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the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > flour from non-cereals

flour1660

tapioca1707

cassava1750

wood-meal1758

pea-flour1766

gram flour1820

nardoo1861

banana flour1890

soya1897

chickpea flour1913

garri1926

soy1945

bean-flour-

1861 W. J. Wills Jrnl. June in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1862) 32 502 Starvation on nardoo is by no means very unpleasant.

1862 H. Kendall Poems & Songs 110 Lest unfriendly hands Should rob him of his hoard of wild nardoo.

1905 A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 121 On the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand miles away.

1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xxiii. 173 Throughout the ages nardoo has helped fatten millions of aborigines.

1963 E. Hill in B. Wannan Treasury Austral. Frontier Tales 130 Food in the pack-bags was flour, tea and four hundred pounds of jerked meat—..a diet varied with boiled crow and nardoo.

2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Sept. 34 Burke, Wills and King watched the Aborigines prepare nardoo, but didn't copy correctly, which contributed to their malnourishment.

Compounds

C1.

nardoo cake n.

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1861 Burke & Wills Exploring Exped. 30 Next came a supply of nardoo cake and water.

1970 J. V. Marshall Walk to Hills of Dreamtime 155 Nardoo cake, cakes made by grinding up into paste and then baking the hard pea-like fruit of the nardoo or clover-fern (marsilea quadrifolia).

2002 The Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 26 Aug. 3 Some of more than 120 items on display are..a sample of nardoo cake, which is probably the oldest surviving piece of Aboriginal food.

nardoo flour n.

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1861 Burke & Wills Exploring Exped. 30 Fetched a large bowl of the raw nardoo flour.

1992 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News Autumn 8 The sporocarps of Marsilea are ground down and made into Nardoo flour by the Aborigines, though it provides little nourishment.

C2.

nardoo seed n. a nardoo sporocarp.

ΚΠ

1865 W. Howitt Hist. Discov. Austral. II. 247 They now began to inquire of the nardoo seed, imagining it the produce of a tree.

1948 H. A. Lindsay Bushman's Handbk. 56 Nardoo ‘seeds’..are really the spore cases of a fern with a leaf like a shamrock which grows in swamps; when the swamp dries these ‘seeds’ can be swept up by the handful.

nardoo stone n. either of a pair of quernstones used for grinding nardoo sporocarps.

ΚΠ

1912 W. B. Spencer & F. J. Gillen Across Austral. 16 The natives make a kind of flour out of them by grinding them to powder between their so-called nardoo stones.

1979 C. Stone Running Brumbies 44 I was also to see many nardoo stones throughout my stay at Clifton Hills.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nardoo
释义	nardoon. Brit. /nɑːˈduː/, /ˈnɑːduː/, U.S. /ˌnɑrˈdu/, /ˈnɑrˌdu/, Australian English /nʌːˈduː/, /ˈnʌːduː/ Forms: 1800s nardo, 1800s nardu, 1800s– nardoo. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from Diyari. Etymon: Diyari ngardu. Etymology: < Diyari (South Australia) ngardu, or a similar form in neighbouring languages of South Australia, south-eastern Queensland, and western New South Wales. Chiefly Australian. 1. Any of several semiaquatic Australian ferns of the genus Marsilea (family Marsileaceae), which have creeping rhizomes and clover-like fronds and grow typically in water in areas of intermittent flooding; esp. M. drummondii. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns mountain parsley1578 female fern1597 rock parsley1597 spleenwort1597 marsh fern1686 prickly fern1764 parsley fern1777 sensitive fern1780 lady fern1783 stone-brake1796 mountain fern1800 rock brake1802 walking leaf1811 todea1813 shield-fern1814 Woodsia1815 mangemange1817 cinnamon fern1818 climbing fern1818 bladder-fern1828 king fern1829 filmy fern1830 ostrich fern1833 New York fern1843 mokimoki1844 rhizocarp1852 film-fern1855 nardoo1860 gymnogram1861 holly-fern1861 limestone-polypody1861 elk-horn1865 Gleichenia1865 lizard's herb1866 cliff brake1867 kidney fern1867 Christmas fern1873 Prince of Wales feathers1873 Christmas shield fern1878 buckler-fern1882 crape-fern1882 stag-horn1882 ladder fern1884 oleander fern1884 stag fern1884 resam1889 lip-fern1890 coral-fern1898 bamboo fern1930 pteroid1949 fern-gale- 1860 Trans. & Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria 203 Intelligence..reached Melbourne of the value, as an edible seed, of the Marsileae hirsuta (or Nardo) as found so useful in the Victorian Expedition. 1889 C. Lumholtz Among Cannibals 41 On the banks of the Thompson river I observed the well-known nardu (Marsilea). 1963 Austral. Encycl. I. 34/1 The dampers form a staple food among inland tribes where several plants, particularly claytonia and nardoo, produce enormous quantities of seeds. 1988 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 July 35/1 Marsilea, also known as nardoo, is found in damp places in many parts of Queensland. 1997 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 23 Mar. c6 The two men died trying to dine only on seed of a small fern called nardoo, which was toxic if not removed from its husk, as Aborigines had learned to do. 2001 Brisbane News (Nexis) 21 Nov. The common nardoo (marsilea drummondii) is a native perennial fern with foliage resembling a four-leafed clover. 2. Sporocarps of this plant collectively, as gathered by Australian Aboriginal people; flour made from this, used as food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > flour from non-cereals flour1660 tapioca1707 cassava1750 wood-meal1758 pea-flour1766 gram flour1820 nardoo1861 banana flour1890 soya1897 chickpea flour1913 garri1926 soy1945 bean-flour- 1861 W. J. Wills Jrnl. June in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. (1862) 32 502 Starvation on nardoo is by no means very unpleasant. 1862 H. Kendall Poems & Songs 110 Lest unfriendly hands Should rob him of his hoard of wild nardoo. 1905 A. B. Paterson Old Bush Songs 121 On the far Barcoo, where they eat nardoo, a thousand miles away. 1941 I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang xxiii. 173 Throughout the ages nardoo has helped fatten millions of aborigines. 1963 E. Hill in B. Wannan Treasury Austral. Frontier Tales 130 Food in the pack-bags was flour, tea and four hundred pounds of jerked meat—..a diet varied with boiled crow and nardoo. 2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 Sept. 34 Burke, Wills and King watched the Aborigines prepare nardoo, but didn't copy correctly, which contributed to their malnourishment. Compounds C1. nardoo cake n. ΚΠ 1861 Burke & Wills Exploring Exped. 30 Next came a supply of nardoo cake and water. 1970 J. V. Marshall Walk to Hills of Dreamtime 155 Nardoo cake, cakes made by grinding up into paste and then baking the hard pea-like fruit of the nardoo or clover-fern (marsilea quadrifolia). 2002 The Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 26 Aug. 3 Some of more than 120 items on display are..a sample of nardoo cake, which is probably the oldest surviving piece of Aboriginal food. nardoo flour n. ΚΠ 1861 Burke & Wills Exploring Exped. 30 Fetched a large bowl of the raw nardoo flour. 1992 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News Autumn 8 The sporocarps of Marsilea are ground down and made into Nardoo flour by the Aborigines, though it provides little nourishment. C2. nardoo seed n. a nardoo sporocarp. ΚΠ 1865 W. Howitt Hist. Discov. Austral. II. 247 They now began to inquire of the nardoo seed, imagining it the produce of a tree. 1948 H. A. Lindsay Bushman's Handbk. 56 Nardoo ‘seeds’..are really the spore cases of a fern with a leaf like a shamrock which grows in swamps; when the swamp dries these ‘seeds’ can be swept up by the handful. nardoo stone n. either of a pair of quernstones used for grinding nardoo sporocarps. ΚΠ 1912 W. B. Spencer & F. J. Gillen Across Austral. 16 The natives make a kind of flour out of them by grinding them to powder between their so-called nardoo stones. 1979 C. Stone Running Brumbies 44 I was also to see many nardoo stones throughout my stay at Clifton Hills. 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