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.
牛轭湖
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 lake
nounˈäksˌbō 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.
牛轭湖
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.