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sudd
[ suhd ]
noun
- (in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.
sudd
/ sʌd /
noun
- floating masses of reeds and weeds that occur on the White Nile and obstruct navigation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sudd1
1870–75; < Arabic: literally, obstruction
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sudd1
C19: from Arabic, literally: obstruction
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Example Sentences
This lake is the home of many sudd plants of the "swimming" variety—papyrus and ambach are absent.
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The Sudan government, however, sent engineering parties to remove the sudd blocks and open out a continuous waterway.
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And Nod, having his mother's quick hand, made a great store of Manaka-cake and Sudd-bread.
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The sudd, it is supposed, stopped the advance of the Roman centurions who were sent up the Nile in the days of Nero.
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Baker cut through fifty miles of the sudd, and urged the khdive to reopen the Nile.
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