distributary

As nouns the difference between distributary and distribution

is that distributary is a branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the Atchafalaya River of the Mississippi while distribution is an act of distributing or state of being distributed.

As a proper noun branch

is .

As a noun distributary is

(hydrology) a branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the atchafalaya river of the mississippi.

As a noun distributary

is (hydrology) a branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the atchafalaya river of the mississippi.

As a proper noun padma is

the main distributary of the ganges river in bangladesh.

As a noun distributary

is (hydrology) a branch of a river delta; a channel that distributes a river's waters into the sea, as with the atchafalaya river of the mississippi.

As a proper noun waal is

a distributary of the rhine in western europe that runs through the netherlands.