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bayou
bay·ou B0124300 (bī′o͞o, bī′ō)n.1. A body of water, such as a creek or small river, that is a tributary of a larger body of water.2. A sluggish stream that meanders through lowlands, marshes, or plantation grounds.
[Louisiana French bayouque, bayou, ultimately (probably via Mobilian Jargon, a pidgin based on Choctaw and Chickasaw used along the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico from colonial times until the 1900s) from Choctaw bayuk, creek, river forming part of a delta.]bayou (ˈbaɪjuː) n (Physical Geography) (in the southern US) a sluggish marshy tributary of a lake or river[C18: from Louisiana French, from Choctaw bayuk]bay•ou (ˈbaɪ u, ˈbaɪ oʊ)
n., pl. -ous. (in the southern U.S.) a marshy arm of a lake, river, etc., usu. sluggish or stagnant. [1760–70, Amer.; < Louisiana French, said to be < Choctaw bayuk river forming part of a delta] bay·ou (bī′o͞o) A sluggish, marshy stream connected with a river, lake, or gulf. Bayous are common in the southern United States.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  bayou - a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)lake - a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land |
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bayou (bī`ō, bī`o͞o) [Louisiana Fr.; from Choctaw bayuk=small stream], term used mainly in U.S. Gulf states, especially Louisiana and Mississippi, to describe a stationary or sluggishly moving body of water that was once part of a lake, river, or gulf and is swampy or marshy in nature. Bayou is sometimes used as a synonym for oxbow lake, a former meander in a river valley cut off from that stream.bayou[′bī‚yü] (hydrology) A small, sluggish secondary stream or lake that exists often in an abandoned channel or a river delta. See BYU
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