oxbow
英 ['ɒksbəʊ]
美 ['ɑks,bo]
- n. 牛のくびきのU字型部分; U字型に曲がった部分
- adj.U字型
語源
オックスボウ、オックスヨーク湖、川の曲がり角ox, ox, bow, yoke.比喩的用法。
英語の語源
- oxbow (n.)
- also ox-bow, mid-14c., "wooden collar for an ox," from ox + bow (n.1). Meaning "semicircular bend in a river" is from 1797, American English (New England); meaning "curved lake left after an oxbow meander has been cut off by a change in the river course" is from 1898. The reference is to similarity of shape.
例文
- 1. City is located in the deep basin Heilonggang Hutuo OXBOW for the alluvial plain.
- 深州市は黒龍港流域の沱河の旧道に位置し、沖積平原である。
- 2.A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow .
- 直水路河川をU字河川の首を通って切り抜いて新しい水路を切り出す。
- 3. Oxbow lakes，the floodplain，dry streams and tributaries，waves beating against the shore.
- 牛ヨーク湖、川の干潟、干流と支流、波が打ち寄せる川岸。
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