A bayou is a slow-moving, marshy area of water in the southern United States, especially Louisiana. a large area of water in the southeast US that moves very slowly and has many water plants (bayuk). Still or slow-moving section of marshy water, usually a creek, secondary watercourse, or minor river that is a tributary of another river or channel. It may occur in the form of an oxbow lake. Bayous are typical of Louisiana's Mississippi River delta
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
A term used mostly in South Louisiana to describe a stream Louisiana bayous are slow moving bodies of water, some of which mark the old courses of the Mississippi River The word bayou came from the Choctaw Indian word Bayuk