单词 | toich |
释义 | toichn. Geography. In Southern Sudan, a stretch of flat land near a river that is subject to annual flooding. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun] > flooded holm?c1050 wash-land1794 callow1823 khadar1828 flood-plain1873 flood-landa1881 berm1891 várzea1911 toich1948 1948 J. D. Tothill Agric. in Sudan vii. 136 The ‘toich’ lands..are primarily used as grazing lands. 1948 J. D. Tothill Agric. in Sudan vii. 954 Toiches are a feature of Equatoria Province. 1955 P. A. Buxton Nat. Hist. Tsetse Flies ix. 271 The same sharp edge may generally be observed in the southern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, at the boundary of the ‘toich’ or grassy flood-plain on cotton soil, with deciduous woodland on ironstone. 1974 Nature 10 May 121/2 The site may have been subject to the type of annual flooding and partial drying which now occurs in ‘toich’ soils which adjoin rivers or ‘khors’ in the permanent swamps of the Sudd region in the southern Sudan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1948 |
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