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< Sudbury
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sudd
(s
d)
KEY
NOUN:
A floating mass of vegetation that often obstructs navigation in tropical rivers.
ETYMOLOGY:
Arabic,
obstruction, sudd
, from
sadda
,
to obstruct
; see
dd
in Semitic roots
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