About The Word Bayou
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Bayou
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What's The Definition Of Bayou?
[n] a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bayou: Related Terms | Find terms related to Bayou: affluent | arm | armlet | bay | belt | bight | billabong | boca | branch | confluent | confluent stream | cove | creek | dendritic drainage pattern | effluent | estuary | euripus | feeder | fjord | fork | frith | gulf | gut | harbor | inlet | kyle | loch | mouth | narrow | narrow seas | narrows | natural harbor | prong | reach | road | roads | roadstead | slough | sound | strait | straits | tributary See Also | lake Bayou In Webster's Dictionary \Bay"ou\, n.; pl. {Bayous}. [North Am. Indian bayuk, in F.
spelling bayouc, bayouque.]
An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a
large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without
perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U.
S.]
A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly
northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. --G. W.
Cable.
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