词汇 | billabong |
释义 | billabong noun[ C ] uk /ˈbɪl.ə.bɒŋ/ us /ˈbɪl.ə.bɑːŋ/ In Australia, a low area of ground that was part of a river in the past and that only fills up with water from the river during a flood.(旧时只有雨季才有水的)干涸河床 PaulMorton/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Watercourses & waterfalls amazon arroyo beck bourne brook canalization cascade Congo crick flume gulch maelstrom Panama Canal plunge pool raceway rapids rill riverbed waterfall waterway The creek, below its confluence with the Wolf, is continually losing its waters, throwing off arms and billabongs, especially to the west, which form swamps, clay-pans, and lagoons. Examples of billabongbillabong This is also apparently the only version that that uses billabongs instead of billabong. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The original billabong has long since been drained. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Sometimes the river will cut off a loop, shortening the channel and forming an oxbow lake or billabong. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We have a billabong, there's a swampland, a creek, we're on the river. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There were no mountain ranges, no rivers, no billabongs, no birds or animals - in fact not one living thing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Previously the river and its associated billabongs had periodically dried back into a series of water holes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is often found in billabongs, dams and lakes at various salinity levels and in the lower reaches of rivers and streams. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are often found in small creeks, as well as billabongs and the edges of larger rivers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, they are still consistently found in low-level billabongs, living alongside the saltwater crocodiles near the tidal reaches of rivers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. For much of the time, however, the river does not flow, and becomes a line of billabongs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In addition, the natural billabong (lake) at the center of the sanctuary is host to many visiting animals, some of which will breed and raise their young at the sanctuary. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It includes two semi-permanent freshwater billabongs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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