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- noun Plural form of
billabong .
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Examples
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During Australia's dry season, wild barramundi end up stuck into "billabongs" - broken-off river oxbows that become hot, stagnant and oxygen poor.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Over 30 artists are extending an open invitation to wander around their art studios this weekend ... and to make all you colonial types more at home the county of Norfolk (the real one in the UK - no offense to Virginia et al) has even organised a massive heat wave thats enough to dry out your billabongs ... more at www. hwat.org.uk
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There are high densities of many other species including barramundi (Lates calcarifer), freshwater turtle species, freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni), saltwater crocodile (C. porosus), and the arafura file snake (Acrochordus arafurae), which may approach densities up to 400 individuals/ha in remnant billabongs during the dry season.
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By the late dry season, flow ceases in the upper reaches, leaving a series of shallow billabongs in dry river beds.
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About the billabongs, I was thinking of the chorus in Waltzing Matilda.
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This year, although the festival was kind of weak, either their beginner's luck or my tricksome cine-askari instincts got us to some top quality cinematic billabongs.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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I have just done 9000klm, 4×4ing, with Jim through the desert, by billabongs and down the coast, living in a Toyota Landcruiser.
mouse trap 2006
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They live in both salt and fresh water, so your options include rock fishing great around the more remote Kimberley coastline and boat-based fishing in estuaries, tidal creeks, rivers, and billabongs.
Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001
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Finding a soak: Even though most desert-dwelling Aboriginal people relied on billabongs stagnant ponds and water holes to service their everyday requirements, from time to time drought would force them to find what they needed elsewhere, and digging was always a viable option.
Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001
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They live in both salt and fresh water, so your options include rock fishing great around the more remote Kimberley coastline and boat-based fishing in estuaries, tidal creeks, rivers, and billabongs.
Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001
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