oxbow

Examples

• All

• Anderson is participating in an Agricultural Research Service program to improve water quality in oxbow lakes.

  Academic text (1999)

• The land was a maze of creeks and oxbow lakes.

  Fiction book (2002)

• So it's the formation of these Oxbow lakes that control the sinuosity of a river.

• Blocking access to the river's edge at this location is a streamlike feature, actually an old oxbow of the river.

  Academic text (1993)

• The participants glided up tributaries and into oxbow lakes in search of that definitive shot.

  Academic text (2008)

• His lake is part of a large-scale initiative to evaluate how environmentally friendly farming practices can benefit oxbow lakes.

  Academic text (1999)

• As the waters of the Angileepee recede, marshy pools form along the oxbow bends of this meandering river.

  Academic text (1991)

• Anderson, a farmer in the Mississippi Delta region, has a 40-acre oxbow lake stocked with bass and catfish 300 yards behind his house.

  Academic text (1999)

• The oxbow of the river created a beautiful, natural curve in the landscape.

• Boaters often stop to rest at the quiet oxbow where the water is calm and fish are plentiful.

Synonyms

B

bend

vsoxbow

77 1.2

A curved part of a road, river, pipe, or body

is specifically a U-shaped river curve that creates land inside it

M

meander

vsoxbow

1 5.5

A large curve in a river or stream

is a single U-shaped river curve that creates land inside it

Compounds

O

oxbow lake

• Specialized

7.9

A curved lake left when a river makes a loop and is cut off

How Winding

meander

1 5.5

to loop

• Specialized

8 4.3

oxbow

3 8.4

to curve

22 2.8

bend

77 1.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology