Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.
anabranch (plural anabranches)
(hydrology, of a water channel) A diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.
Source: Wiktionary
An"a*branch, n. [Anastomosing + branch.]
Definition: A branch of a river that reënters, or anastomoses with, the main stream; also, less properly, a branch which loses itself in sandy soil. [Australia]
Such branches of a river as after separation reunite, I would term anastomosing branches; or, if a word might be coined, anabranches, and the islands they form branch islands. Col. Jackson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 April 2025
(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
Hawaii and California are the only two U.S. states that grow coffee plants commercially.