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Definition of oxbow lake in English: oxbow lakenoun A curved lake formed from a horseshoe bend in a river where the main stream has cut across the narrow end and no longer flows around the loop of the bend. Example sentencesExamples - Just across the Mobile County line, pine plantations yield to a primeval landscape of moss-draped trees and oxbow lakes.
- In a familiar oxbow lake, there were gallinules and egrets, even a couple of brightly colored wood ducks and five blue-winged teal.
- Meanwhile, a small family of endangered giant river otters lolls gracefully in a protected area of an oxbow lake nearby.
- Hereabouts the river meanders; there is a hint of an oxbow lake.
- South Moravia is home to extensive marshes, oxbow lakes and the largest fragments of hardwood floodplain forest in Central Europe.
Definition of oxbow lake in US English: oxbow lakenounˈäksˌbō lāk A curved lake formed at a former oxbow where the main stream of the river has cut across the narrow end and no longer flows around the loop of the bend. Example sentencesExamples - In a familiar oxbow lake, there were gallinules and egrets, even a couple of brightly colored wood ducks and five blue-winged teal.
- Just across the Mobile County line, pine plantations yield to a primeval landscape of moss-draped trees and oxbow lakes.
- Meanwhile, a small family of endangered giant river otters lolls gracefully in a protected area of an oxbow lake nearby.
- South Moravia is home to extensive marshes, oxbow lakes and the largest fragments of hardwood floodplain forest in Central Europe.
- Hereabouts the river meanders; there is a hint of an oxbow lake.
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