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Definition of Billabongs
1. billabong [n] - See also: billabong
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billabongs
Literary usage of Billabongs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"D. Macdonald, 'Gum Boughs,' P- 25: "What a number of swallows skim about the '
billabongs' along the rivers in this semi-tropical region." 1893. ..."
2. South Australia: Its History, Resources, and Productions by William Harcus (1876)
"None of these creeks contain permanent water. Abraham's billabongs are long deep
ponds, in heavy paper-bark and gum forests, and are permanent, ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1889)
"... spreads over extensive plains, filling numerous creeks, lakes and billabongs,
the only points not inundated being the peculiar red loamy sand-dunes. ..."
4. The Real True Story Book by Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford (1895)
"advanced, and sent off large billabongs (or backwaters) to the south, slightly
changing the course of the Creek each time, until it disappeared altogether ..."
5. Handbook of South Australia by David John Gordon (1908)
"Of the inland waters the River Murray and its lakes and billabongs are the best
for fish, and they abound with them. The famous Murray cod is in demand ..."
6. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"Visitors are advised to go in drier May-August, especially toward the latter when
wildlife gather around shrinking watercourses and billabongs. ..."
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