Associations to the word «Distributary»

Wiktionary

DISTRIBUTARY, noun. (hydrology) A branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the Atchafalaya River of the Mississippi.

Dictionary definition

DISTRIBUTARY, noun. A branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it.

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus