canebrake
a thicket of canes.
Origin of canebrake
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How to use canebrake in a sentence
On the edge of the canebrake a thicket of papaw and blackberry vines added rankness and forest secrecy.
The Kentucky Warbler | James Lane AllenPresently they came to a species of canebrake, very dense and high; there was no green in sight, only the canes.
East Angels | Constance Fenimore WoolsonNow and then they passed thickets of canebrake, and once, at the side of a stream, they came to a salt "lick."
The Young Trailers | Joseph A. AltshelerThe grass was high and thick and the canebrake was so dense that passage through it seemed impossible.
The Young Trailers | Joseph A. AltshelerThen it was covered with magnificent forest and now they threaded their way through the dense canebrake.
The Young Trailers | Joseph A. Altsheler
British Dictionary definitions for canebrake
/ (ˈkeɪnˌbreɪk) /
US a thicket of canes
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