Word.ws English Dictionary

nardoo

nardoo noun: marsilea drummondii, a four-leaved aquatic fern native to Australia the sporocarps of which are processed for food.

Noun

nardoo (countable and uncountable, plural nardoos)

  1. (Australia) Marsilea drummondii, a four-leaved aquatic fern native to Australia the sporocarps of which are processed for food.
    • Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii) was a crucial plant because of its ability to grow on the beds of shallow lakes in otherwise inhospitable regions.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 34

Forms of nardoo

pluralnardoos

Origin of nardoo

From Dieri ngardu.

Questions about nardoo

What does nardoo mean?
Nardoo means marsilea drummondii, a four-leaved aquatic fern native to Australia the sporocarps of which are processed for food.
What part of speech is nardoo?
Nardoo is a noun.
What is the plural of nardoo?
The plural of nardoo is nardoos.

Words near nardoo in the dictionary

  1. Nardinis
  2. Nardis
  3. Nardo
  4. Nardone
  5. Nardones
  6. nardoo
  7. nardoos
  8. Nardos
  9. nards
  10. Narducci
  11. Narduccis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nardoo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nardoo.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nardoo. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.