Usually means: Curved lake formed by river.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. oxbow lake: Merriam-Webster
  2. oxbow lake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. oxbow lake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. oxbow lake: Collins English Dictionary
  5. oxbow lake: Vocabulary.com
  6. oxbow lake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. oxbow lake: Wiktionary
  8. oxbow lake: Dictionary.com
  9. Oxbow Lake (Virginia), Oxbow lake: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. oxbow lake: Rhymezone
  11. oxbow lake: FreeDictionary.org
  12. oxbow lake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. oxbow lake: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oxbow lake: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See oxbow_lakes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (oxbow lake)

noun:  A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.

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