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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Distributary \Dis*trib"u*ta*ry\, a.
   Tending to distribute or be distributed; that distributes;
   distributive.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

distributary
    n 1: a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream
         and does not rejoin it [ant: affluent, confluent,
         feeder, tributary]