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urd

  [oord, urd]
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–noun
a plant, Vigna mungo, of the legume family, widely cultivated in tropical Asia for its edible seeds and for forage.
Also called gram, black gram.

Origin:
< Hindi urd, urdh, urad, uṛad, Prakrit uḍidda- a pulse
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Urd

  [oord]
–noun Scandinavian Mythology.
See under Norn.
Origin:
< ON Urthr, c. OE wyrd (see weird ), deriv. of the Gmc root of ON vertha to become, G werden; see worth 2

Norn

  [nawrn]
–noun Scandinavian Mythology.
any of three goddesses of fate, the goddess of the past (Urd), the goddess of the present (Verdandi), and the goddess of the future (Skuld).
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Word Origin & History

Norn 
1770, from O.N. norn (pl. nornir), one of the female fates of Scand. mythology, related to Swed. dial. norna "to warn, to communicate secretly," perhaps ult. imitative of low murmuring (cf. M.H.G. narren "to growl, snarl").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
Urd
uridine
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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