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canebrake
[ keyn-breyk ]
canebrake
/ ˈkeɪnˌbreɪk /
noun
- a thicket of canes
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Word History and Origins
Origin of canebrake1
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Example Sentences
On the edge of the canebrake a thicket of papaw and blackberry vines added rankness and forest secrecy.
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Presently they came to a species of canebrake, very dense and high; there was no green in sight, only the canes.
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Now and then they passed thickets of canebrake, and once, at the side of a stream, they came to a salt "lick."
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The grass was high and thick and the canebrake was so dense that passage through it seemed impossible.
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Then it was covered with magnificent forest and now they threaded their way through the dense canebrake.
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