What is "oxbows"

Usage examples of "oxbows".

After dropping down karst highlands, she meandered across grassy steppes, winding into oxbows, breaking into separate channels and rejoining again as she wove her way south.

Rather than several rills, creeks, and streams contributing to a larger body of running water, often the same river was crossed several times as it meandered across flat grasslands, turning back on itself in oxbows and breaking into channels.

A small river ran through the valley floor, winding in lazy oxbows through tiny, barren fields.