billabong (redirected from billabongs)

bil·la·bong  (bl-bông, -bng)

n. Australian

1. A dead-end channel extending from the main stream of a river.

2. A streambed filled with water only in the rainy season.

3. A stagnant pool or backwater.

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[Wiradhuri (Aboriginal language of southeast Australia) bilaba, watercourse filled only after rain.]

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billabong [ˈbɪləˌbɒŋ]

n Austral

1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a backwater channel that forms a lagoon or pool

2. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a branch of a river running to a dead end

[from a native Australian language, from billa river + bong dead]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	billabong - a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony puddle, pool - a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid; "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood"
	2.	billabong - a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high branch - a stream or river connected to a larger one

Translations

billabong

n (Austral) (of river) → Seitenarm m → eines Flusses; (= pool) → stehendes Wasser