noun
- Plural of nardoo; an aquatic fern native to Australia whose spore cases were used as food by Aboriginal peoples and early European explorers.
Usage: chiefly historical; Australian English
Examples
- The explorers survived in the outback by gathering nardoos from the water holes.
- Aboriginal Australians had long harvested nardoos as a reliable source of nutrition.
- The nardoos plant grows in shallow freshwater pools across inland Australia.
- Early colonial accounts mention the importance of nardoos to indigenous food systems.