Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dense thicket of cane.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thicket of canes; in the United States, a tract of land thickly overgrown with Arundinaria.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thicket of canes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A dense
thicket ofsugarcane ,bamboo or similar plants.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)
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Examples
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Now, while the crickets shake their infant rattles in canebrake
The Last Words Of Julius Orange Dennis Mahagin 2011
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Now, while the crickets shake their infant rattles in canebrake
The Last Words Of Julius Orange Dennis Mahagin 2011
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Or maybe he noticed that I glanced off toward that canebrake.
Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010
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Tolteca sauntered past the canebrake, following a side path.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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I was like to swoon, and had to grab a nearby canebrake rattlesnake for support.
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Receiving intelligence that the most active leaders of the opposition were encamped on Cherokee land, Richardson sent 1300 militia and rangers under Colonel William Thomson into the canebrake an area of land with a thick dense growth on December 21.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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Oh, and I almost went to a snake handling church one time -- I was invited as a reporter by a congregant who wanted to get the word out to anyone interested in praising Jesus with a canebrake rattler or two -- but moved out of the area before I could take him up on it.
At home in a house church Andrew Beckner 2007
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Oh, and I almost went to a snake handling church one time -- I was invited as a reporter by a congregant who wanted to get the word out to anyone interested in praising Jesus with a canebrake rattler or two -- but moved out of the area before I could take him up on it.
Archive 2007-05-01 Andrew Beckner 2007
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Pocosins have a dense, fire adapted, shrub layer and an open overstory of pond pine (Pinus serotina); the endangered canebrake rattlesnake occurs here (Terwilliger and Tate, 1994).
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA) 2008
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Squint-eyed and cunning, its tongue split like a wishbone, the canebrake sulls up, cursive spine and the diamonds in spiral like genetic code, and Joby frets the Stratocaster, its plastic the color of a salted ham.
yarb commented on the word canebrake
Citation on spatulous.
March 5, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word canebrake
canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) aka timber rattlesnake.
October 31, 2012