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bayou1766, via Louisiana French, from Choctaw bayuk "small stream."
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bayouswampy backwater of a river or lake. Read more in the NG Education Encyclopedia
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bayouan inlet or outlet, often marshy. A slough.
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bayou(n) a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
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bayouThe term bayou refers to a slow-moving river, stream, or a marshy wetland or lake. Bayous are most often found in low-lying, flat areas.
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bayouTerm used in Florida for a small bay, and in Mississippi and Louisiana for a waterway through lowlands or swamps, connecting other bodies of water, and usually tidal or with an imperceptible current.
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bayouA relatively small, sluggish waterway through lowlands or swamps, generally with a slow, almost imperceptible current flow. Often also defined simply as slow moving streams crisscrossing Louisiana.
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bayoua small river or stream with a slow current.
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bayouA slow moving stream of water. Armand Bayou flows through ABNC.
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bayou(by' you) Slow stream, or body of water running through a marsh or swamp.
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bayou
A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
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