2.American EnglishAmESG a small lake which is not very deep, near a larger lake or river 〔大湖或江河附近的〕小湖
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lagoon• Fresh or brackish lakes and lagoons, usually reed-fringed, also marshes.• It smelledtoxic, looked like pus from the creature from the black lagoon and burned like hot coals on the skin.• After the waters recede, extensivelagoons and marshes are formed as the ground gradually dries out.• A small lagoon is formed by the stream between a sandbank and the rock wall.• With its loss of flow, the river's old mouth had silted up, thus forming the lagoon and swamp.• Several times a year, the waste is pumped from the lagoons and spread across cropland as fertilizer.• Corals also grow on the lagoonslope and in patches, known as reefknolls, on the lagoon floor.• There was little to choose between the water of the Venicelagoon and the air above it.
Originlagoon
(1600-1700)Frenchlagune, from Italianlaguna, from Latinlacuna; → LACUNA