OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 34505

oxbow lake

Meanings (ES + gloss)
brazo muerto • lago en herradura
A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.
Humans called this an oxbow lake—one that had originally been part of the river.
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