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anabranches

anabranches is the plural of anabranch.

Meaning of anabranch

Noun

anabranch (plural anabranches)

  1. (especially) A diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.
    • 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.1834, Colonel Jackson, “Hints on the Subject of Geographical Arrangement and Nomenclature”, in The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Volume 4

Questions about anabranches

What is anabranches the plural of?
Anabranches is the plural of anabranch.

Words near anabranches in the dictionary

  1. anabolytic
  2. anabranch
  3. Anabranch North
  4. Anabranch South
  5. anabranched
  6. anabranches
  7. anabranching
  8. anabrosis
  9. anacampsis
  10. anacamptic
  11. anacamptically

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