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Oxbow lake

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  1. 1
    A crescent-shaped lake formed near a flat-valleyed river when one of its meanders becomes pinched off and isolated.

    "Humans called this an oxbow lake—one that had originally been part of the river."

  2. 2
    a crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel wordnet

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