billabong

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bil=la=bong

CIDE DICTIONARY

billabong, n. [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