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

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus