Associations to the word «Billabong»

Wiktionary

BILLABONG, noun. (Australia) A stagnant pool of water.
BILLABONG, noun. A streambed that is only filled with water during the rainy season.
BILLABONG, noun. A channel that dead-ends which extends from the main part of a river.
BILLABONG, noun. (Australia) (rare) An oxbow lake.

Dictionary definition

BILLABONG, noun. A stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently.
BILLABONG, noun. A branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats