oxbow lake

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   a crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel

   Broaderlake

Questions about oxbow lake

What does oxbow lake mean?

oxbow lake means "a crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel".

Is oxbow lake a common word?

oxbow lake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.