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anabranch
CIDE DICTIONARY
anabranch, 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. [1913 Webster]
"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."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
anabranch, n. esp. Austral. a stream that leaves a river and re-enters it lower down.
Etymology
ANASTOMOSE + BRANCH
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