anabranch

American  

[an-uh-branch, -brahnch] / ˈæn əˌbræntʃ, -ˌbrɑntʃ /

noun

1. a stream branching off from a river and rejoining it further downstream.

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anabranch British  

/ ˈɑːnəˌbrɑːntʃ /

noun

1. a stream that leaves a river and enters it again further downstream

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Etymology

Origin of anabranch

1825–35; short for anastomotic branch. See anastomosis

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Example Sentences

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anabranch

After passing some gullies, we came into a more broken and hilly country; the river formed here a large anabranch.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

Fine water-holes were passed at a short half-mile from our camp; and, after crossing the northern anabranch of the river, we again found water.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

Some stockmen looking after the company’s cattle on an anabranch of Cornish Creek, were surrounded by water, and lived on jerked beef for a month.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer

The creek here has an anabranch that leaves it about half a mile above and joins again about half a mile below; width of island half a mile.

From McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia by John McKinlay

A few miles farther we came to an anabranch of the creek, which turned considerably to the westward.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

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