bayou

bayou
/buy"ooh, buy"oh/, n., pl. bayous. Chiefly Lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf States.
1. a marshy arm, inlet, or outlet of a lake, river, etc., usually sluggish or stagnant.
2. any of various other often boggy and slow-moving or still bodies of water.
[1710-20, Amer.; < LaF, said to be < Choctaw bayuk river forming part of a delta]

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Still or slow-moving section of marshy water, usually a creek, secondary watercourse, or minor river that is a tributary of another river or channel.

It may occur in the form of an oxbow lake. Bayous are typical of Louisiana's Mississippi River delta.

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