oxbow lakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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名詞

oxbow lake (plural oxbow lakes)

1. A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.
   • 1988, Octavia E. Butler, “Part II, Chapter 1”, in Adulthood Rites, page 69:

     Humans called this an oxbow lake—one that had originally been part of the river.

同意語

• billabong (Australia, rare)

参考

• resaca