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billabong

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Noun
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bil=la=bong

CIDE DICTIONARY

billabongn. [Native name.].
     In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

billabong, n. Austral. a branch of a river forming a backwater or a stagnant pool.

Etymology
Aboriginal Billibang Bell River f. billa water

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