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Definition of Anabranches
1. anabranch [n] - See also: anabranch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anabranches
Literary usage of Anabranches
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)
"Any one of the rivers may be followed down with confidence till it enters the
deltal plain, whereupon it splits up into anabranches, which sooner or later ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
""The river itself divided into anabranches which . . . made the whole valley a
maze of channels." 1865. W. Howitt, ' Discovery in Australia, ..."
3. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port by Ludwig Leichhardt (1847)
"We travelled four miles to the ENE The anabranches of the river continued ; the
ranges of quartz porphyry approached several times close to the river. ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... 'the moisture pouring from the leaves anabranches in an abundant shower'—the
same as it was in my time. ..."
5. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"St. anabranches filiform, quadrangular; 1rs. very minute subulate-/' sessile.—Dry
fields and roadsides, US and Can. Stem 4—8' high, branched above into ..."
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