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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bayou \Bay"ou\, n.; pl. Bayous. [North Am. Indian bayuk, in F. spelling bayouc, bayouque.] An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] [1913 Webster] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. --G. W. Cable. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bayou n 1: a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "bayou": affluent, arm, armlet, bay, belt, bight, billabong, boca, branch, confluent, confluent stream, cove, creek, dendritic drainage pattern, effluent, estuary, euripus, feeder, fjord, fork, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, prong, reach, road, roads, roadstead, slough, sound, strait, straits, tributary