VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / bayou

Thesaurus: bayou

An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. n. An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.
  2. n. a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
  3. n:100 n. a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)