distributaries
- plural of distributary.
Example Sentences
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Had the river been left to its own devices, a super-wet spring like that of 2011 would have sent the Mississippi and its distributaries surging over their banks.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
Every 1,000 years or so, it abandoned its main channel for one of its distributaries.
From Economist ● Aug. 24, 2017
The Mississippi River delta is a river-dominated delta, shaped by levees along the river and its distributaries that confine the flow forming a shape called a bird-foot delta.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
As distributary channels fill with sediment, the stream is diverted laterally, and the alluvial fan develops into a cone shape with distributaries radiating from the canyon mouth.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
In the year 1888-1889 this canal had 564 m. of main line, with 2050 m. of minor distributaries, and irrigated 519,022 acres of crops.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
