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Definition of Anabranch
1. 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.
Definition of Anabranch
1. Noun. (hydrology of a water channel) A diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream. ¹
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Definition of Anabranch
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anabranch
Literary usage of Anabranch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and by Robert Logan Jack (1921)
"Next day the anabranch was followed to the east for 2 miles, and Camp 62 was
selected as affording good grass for the horses. On 2$tb August, ..."
2. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ...: General index to the by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1845)
"Guided by our new conductor, we struck across through the scrub to the Darling,
crossing a large anabranch of that river, running through the scrub half way ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Billabong is often regarded as a synonym for anabranch (qv) ; but there is a
distinction. From the original idea, the anabranch implies rejoining the river ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1889)
"In support of this is the fact that at the dirt's, on the eastern bank of the
River Darling, a few miles below the anabranch Cutting, there is exposed at ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"A curious history ie given of the word " anabranch," which was applied by Colonel
Jackson ..."
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