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