distributary

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Muddy floodwaters rise and spread over deltaic wetlands from main and so-called distributary channels, transporting mass and energy laterally across the delta, in essence nourishing the landscape.

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  1. noun A branch of a river that flows away from the main stream.

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  • Muddy floodwaters rise and spread over deltaic wetlands from main and so-called distributary channels, transporting mass and energy laterally across the delta, in essence nourishing the landscape. —  Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • The Atchafalaya is a distributary of the Mississippi River, a channel of the river that drains into the Gulf of Mexico west of the main channel. —  NASA Earth Observatory
  • It has hitherto been largely irrigated by public and private inundation canals, but this form of irrigation may be superseded by the excavation of a new distributary from the Lower Jhelam Canal. —  The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
  • Claudius prevented too great an ascendency in Italy of this second stranger and supplied a distributary to the current of popular superstition. —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
 

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  1. from Middle Latin distributarius, from Latin distributus, past participle: see distribute.
 

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/dɪsˈtrɪbjutəri/
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