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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 bil·la·bong /ˈbɪləˌbɔŋ, ˌbɑŋ/
 分流,池,沼

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bil·la·bong n.  In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 billabong
      n 1: a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows
           intermittently
      2: a branch of a river running to a dead end