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- n. Plural form of canebrake.
Examples
“Within the predominant semi-evergreen forests of this ecoregion are patches of several other habitat types, such as canebrakes, wet bamboo brakes, moist bamboo brakes, lateritic semi-evergreen forests, and secondary moist bamboo breaks.”
“Making my way back through the canebrakes and up to the houses, I nodded to women stoking morning fires under their ramadas and smelled boiling hominy.”
“Turtles sunned on logs, and huge canebrakes filled the backwaters.”
“When the financial panic of 1907 broke, he was deep in the Louisiana canebrakes, happily slaughtering bears.”
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“Ms. Wall notes that at some remote point in the past — it's not clear when — ancient forests and canebrakes were cleared and the good soil seeded with Poa pratensis, or bluegrass, which is not blue but is very good fodder.”
“It wants to defoliate miles and miles of brush along the banks of the Rio Grande so that no one can hide in the canebrakes.”
“In permanently wet or moist areas with fine, clayey soils and a rich humus layer, impenetrable canebrakes grow profusely in the understory.”
“We crossed the ravine down which smoked the stream of hot water, and followed the winding pathway through the canebrakes until we reached a wide area covered over with a thick, powdery yellow substance which I believe was sulphur.”
“My father is a khaki cloud in the canebrakes, and Ginny is no more to me than the bitter smell in the blackberry briers up on the ridge.”
“The hardwood forests and dense canebrakes were laced with buffalo trails, or "traces" - wide swaths that would later serve as pioneer roads.”
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