单词 | anabranch |
释义 | anabranchn. Physical Geogr. Esp. in Australia: a branch stream which turns out of a river and re-enters it lower down. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > tributary > [noun] > branch arma1398 armleta1552 outrunner1620 sprout1676 horn1697 anabranch1834 distributary1863 1834 J. R. Jackson in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 4 79 Thus, such branches of a river as after separation re-unite, I would term anastomosing-branches; or, if a word might be coined, ana-branches. 1847 F. W. L. Leichhardt Jrnl. Overland Exped. Austral. ii. 35 The river..divided into ana-branches which..made the whole valley a maze of channels. 1849 C. Sturt Narr. Exped. Central Austral. I. 93 To ascertain how high the back-waters of the Murray had gone up the Ana-branch of the Darling. 1907 H. Lawson Send round the Hat in Prose Wks. (1948) 649 He rode round the outside track and came in on to the river just below where the anabranch joins it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2011). < n.1834 |
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