1. a crescent-shaped often ephemeral lake formed in the abandoned channel of a meander by the silting up of its ends after the stream has cut through the land within the meander at a narrow point
oxbow lakes 例句
英汉例句
countless oxbow lakes and cutoffs accompany the meandering river south of memphis, tennessee, on the border between arkansas and mississippi.
图中显示的一段位于阿肯色州及密西西比州交界,在田纳西州孟菲斯的南面。
horseshoe shaped lakes or oxbow lakes are not unusual in the flat plains of the lower mississippi river and deltas of other rivers.