oxbow lake
oxbow lake · oxbow lakes
старица
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A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders…A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.
Meaning
1 sensesA crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.
Near-synonym: billabong (Australia)
Altarm, Altwasser
старицаstarica
a crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel
Translations
7 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
crescent-shaped lake:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
crescent-shaped lake:
Forms
plural: oxbow lakes| Singular | oxbow lake |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsWord family
1 related wordsRelatedresaca
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.