oxbow lake

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Noun

oxbow lake (plural oxbow lakes)

1. A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.
   • 1988, Octavia E. Butler, “Part II, Chapter 1”, in Adulthood Rites, page 69:

     Humans called this an oxbow lake—one that had originally been part of the river.

Synonyms

• billabong (Australia, rare)

Translations

crescent-shaped lake

Catalan: braç mort (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 牛軛湖 / 牛轭湖 (niú'èhú) Cornish: stummlynn f Czech: mrtvé rameno n Dutch: hoefijzermeer n Esperanto: meandra lago Finnish: juolua (fi), makkarajärvi (fi) French: bras mort (fr) m German: Altarm m, Altwasser (de) n Icelandic: bjúgvatn Italian: lanca (it) Japanese: 三日月湖 (mikazukiko) Korean: 우각호 (ugakho) Latvian: vecupe (lv) f Lithuanian: sénvagė f Macedonian: мртвица f (mrtvica) Norwegian: Bokmål: kroksjø (no) m, meandersjø (no) m Nynorsk: kroksjø m, meandersjø m Polish: starorzecze (pl), jezioro przyrzeczne Portuguese: braço morto m Romanian: belciug (ro) n Russian: старица (ru) (starica) Slovene: mrtvica (sl) f, mrtvi rokav m Spanish: brazo muerto m, lago en herradura m Swedish: korvsjö (sv) Welsh: ystumllyn m

See also

• resaca