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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]