单词 | bayou |
释义 | bayou /buy"ooh, buy"oh/, n. , pl. bayous. Chiefly Lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf States. 1. a marshy arm, inlet, or outlet of a lake, river, etc., usually sluggish or stagnant. 2. any of various other often boggy and slow-moving or still bodies of water. [1710-20, Amer.; < LaF, said to be < Choctaw bayuk river forming part of a delta] |
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