noun
definition
A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
definition
A swamp, a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
Examples of bayou in a Sentence
Every bayou contains alligators; and reptiles of various species, such as turtles, lizards, horned toads, rattlesnakes and moccasins are abundant.
It has been so useful in relieving the Mississippi of floods, that the Red river may possibly be permanently diverted again into the bayou artificially.
In Houston, there 's a huge Victorian storm sewer that empties into Buffalo Bayou.
The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou.
To really test your love of bayou country, try the fried alligator or alligator soup.
Springtime on the Bayou--Includes cruising in the heart of Cajun country in Louisiana and sampling popular local dishes such as gumbo, crawfish pie, and jambalaya.
Tiger Bayou Boar and Exotics offers great hunting and camping in the Bayou of Louisiana.
Tiana wedding doll - She is decked out in her green and white gown, with tiara and veil, ready for her wedding in the bayou.
The Babbling Bayou indulges kids' love of water play with a variety of fun items, such as boats, ducks, toys, and spouts.
Bayou adjustable dumbbells come in pairs of 25 or 50 pounds.
The tray serves as a weight adjustment guide as well as a convenient attachment point for securing the weights to the Bayou adjustable dumbbell bench.
Like the Bowflex Selecttech, the Bayou dumbbells are easily adjusted.
While the Bayou adjustable dumbbells provide an affordable alternative to the products of the more popular manufacturers, there is one concern.
In Houston, there's a huge Victorian storm sewer that empties into Buffalo Bayou.
Among them are Bayou Teche, Bayou Plaquemine, Atchafalaya Bayou,' Bayou Lafourche and Bayou Boeuf.
Grant, as he pushed Pemberton before him to Granada, lengthened day by day his line of communication, and when Van Dorn, ever enterprising, raided the great Federal depot of Holly Springs the game was up. Grant retired hastily, for starvation was imminent, and Pemberton, thus freed, turned upon Sherman, and inflicted a severe defeat on that general at Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg (December 29).
There is also a state home for disabled Confederate soldiers at New Orleans on Bayou St John.
It is filmed in the Louisiana Bayou and uses camera techniques taken straight from The Blair Witch Project to give parts of the show an almost amateur, home movie feeling.
He suffered defeat at Chickasaw Bayou, but the capture of Fort Hindman, near Arkansas Post, compensated to some extent for the Vicksburg failure.
In the immediate vicinity of the city, on the Red river, cotton, sugar, alfalfa and garden vegetables are cultivated; south of the Red river is a peculiarly rich farming country watered by Bayou Rapides and Bayou Boeuf.