Definition of Anabrench
An"a*branch (?), n.
[Anastomosing + branch.] A branch of a river that
reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less
properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil.
[Australia]
Such branches of a river as after separation reunite, I
would term anastomosing branches; or, if a word might be coined,
anabranches, and the islands they form branch
islands. Col. Jackson.
An"a*branch (?), n.
[Anastomosing + branch.] A branch of a river that
reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less
properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil.
[Australia]
Such branches of a river as after separation reunite, I
would term anastomosing branches; or, if a word might be coined,
anabranches, and the islands they form branch
islands. Col. Jackson.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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