Anabranch

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  • n. A diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A branch of a river which reunites with it lower down, thus forming an island known as a branch-island. Called by the aborigines billabong.
    • Word Usage
    "Sometimes used for an anabranch, but more often used for one that, in dry season or droughts especially, is cut off at either or both ends from the main stream."
     
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