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词汇 oxbow lake
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Definition of oxbow lake in English:

oxbow lake

noun
  • 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.
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