bayous
Meaning
of Bayou
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnagrams
Examples
Federal Writers' Project 1987, p. 13. In eastern Arkansas, one can find Taxodium (cypress), Quercus nigra (water oaks), and hickories with their roots submerged in the Mississippi Valley bayous indicative of the deep south.
Fausse Point, was established near present-day Loreauville by late June 1765." citation The Acadians shared the swamps, bayous and prairies with the Attakapa and Chitimacha Native American tribes.
He has used the kite to map the waterways of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, taking aerial images of the environmental damage afflicting the region’s bayous, lakes, rivers and streams.
She feels most at home on the family’s skiff, exploring the hidden treasures of the deep bayous.
The city owns surface water rights for 1.20 billion gallons of water a day in addition to 150 million gallons a day of groundwater. citation Houston has four major bayous passing through the city.
The fugitive slaves, called maroons, could easily hide in the backcountry of the bayous and survive in small settlements.