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A branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it
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distributary
Word definitions for distributary in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Distributary \Dis*trib"u*ta*ry\, a. Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes; distributive.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it [ant: feeder ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context hydrology English) A branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the Atchafalaya River of the Mississippi.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A distributary , or a distributary channel , is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. They are a common feature of river deltas . The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation . The opposite of a distributary is a tributary ...
Usage examples of distributary.
What we have here is short, fat river that spreads out into a network of distributaries and marshes when it reaches the sea.