oxbow lake

English

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• billabong (Australia, rare)

Translations

crescent-shaped lake

• Catalan: braç mort (ca) m
• Cornish: stummlynn f
• Czech: mrtvé rameno n
• Dutch: hoefijzermeer n
• Finnish: juolua (fi), makkarajärvi (fi)
• French: bras mort (fr) m
• German: Altarm m, Altwasser (de) n
• Icelandic: bjúgvatn
• Italian: lanca (it)
• Japanese: 三日月湖 (mikazukiko)
• Korean: 우각호 (ugakho)
• Macedonian: мртвица f (mrtvica)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kroksjø (no) m, meandersjø (no) m

  Nynorsk: kroksjø m, meandersjø m

• Polish: starorzecze (pl), jezioro przyrzeczne
• Portuguese: braço morto m
• Romanian: belciug (ro) n
• Russian: старица (ru) (starica)
• Slovene: mrtvica (sl) f, mrtvi rokav m
• Spanish: brazo muerto m, lago en herradura m
• Swedish: korvsjö
• Welsh: ystumllyn m

See also

• resaca