Bayou Synonyms

bī'o͝o, bī'ō

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Synonyms for Bayou

backwater
The definition of backwater is a body of water that is held back by an obstruction such as a dam or tide.
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creek
A channel or stream running through a salt marsh:
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outlet
A stream that flows out of a lake or pond.
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brook
(Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
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river
Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
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stream
The definition of a stream is a steady movement or flow of liquid.
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billabong
An oxbow lake.
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jambalaya
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Bayou Sentence Examples

  • Every bayou contains alligators; and reptiles of various species, such as turtles, lizards, horned toads, rattlesnakes and moccasins are abundant.

  • It has been so useful in relieving the Mississippi of floods, that the Red river may possibly be permanently diverted again into the bayou artificially.

  • In Houston, there 's a huge Victorian storm sewer that empties into Buffalo Bayou.

  • The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou.

  • To really test your love of bayou country, try the fried alligator or alligator soup.

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