Anabranching

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Splitting around mid-channel islands that are roughly three times the width of the channel at full discharge. not-comparable

    "Work on anabranching channels has been restricted mainly to the alluvial plains of the Murray and the Murrumbidgee, where the anabranches -- offshoots -- rejoin the original trunk or unite with a next-neighbouring trunk, sometimes after a distance of tens of miles."

Example

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"Work on anabranching channels has been restricted mainly to the alluvial plains of the Murray and the Murrumbidgee, where the anabranches -- offshoots -- rejoin the original trunk or unite with a next-neighbouring trunk, sometimes after a distance of tens of miles."

Etymology

From ana- + branching.

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