resaca

resaca
 n.— «Let’s look at Brownsville, Texas: You have got the Rio Grande river coming down; you have a thing called resacas, which is the Spanish term for ox-bow lakes, they’re a natural phenomenon.» —“We’ve Had 40 Years of Total Disregard” by Michael Parker Executive Intelligence Review Sept. 30, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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