bayou

/bahy-oo, bahy-oh/US // ˈbaɪ u, ˈbaɪ oʊ //UK // (ˈbaɪjuː) //

河口,河口区,河口市,海口

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural bay·ous.Chiefly Lower Mississippi Valley and Gulf States.
- : a marshy arm, inlet, or outlet of a lake, river, etc., usually sluggish or stagnant.
- : any of various other often boggy and slow-moving or still bodies of water.

nounswampy outlet

Synonyms

Just across the bayou, however, is a house almost guaranteed to please.
But Hillstomp is the real deal, as legit as anything you will find nowadays down on the bayou.
At a rally for longshot Senate candidate on the bayou, Sarah Palin got choked up on Thursday.
All the moves, that is, except managing his state properly—at least according to Bayou voters.
Houston has plans for a series of bayou-oriented green ways.
Issa Bayou smiles and shakes his head as he recalls how he escaped from a Tripoli prison during the uprising in Libya.
They were located on a lake, which communicates with the branch of Red-river passing Bayou Pierre.
Next instant the placid water of the bayou was beaten into showers of spray, which gleamed silver in the brilliant moonlight.
He remembered my reasoning in the boat coming down the bayou.
Hiding the boat in another bayou, we took our way home on foot.
Professor Newland, Beth and I went up the bayou with them that morning they left.