(Eastern North America) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees
We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
(Western North America) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide
The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
When a plant sloughs its leaves, or an animal such as a snake sloughs its skin, the leaves or skin come off naturally. All reptiles have to slough their skin to grow = shed Slough off means the same as slough. Our bodies slough off dead cells. = shed. A municipal borough of southeast England, a residential and industrial suburb of London. Population: 103,454
The term for the viscous yellow layer which often covers the wound and is strongly adherent to it Its presence can be related to the end of the inflammatory stage of healing when dead cells have accumulated in the exudate