canebrakes

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.

Orissa semi-evergreen forests 2008

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.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

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.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Turtles sunned on logs, and huge canebrakes filled the backwaters.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

When the financial panic of 1907 broke, he was deep in the Louisiana canebrakes, happily slaughtering bears.

A Short History of Presidential Relaxation John Steele Gordon 2011

Turtles sunned on logs, and huge canebrakes filled the backwaters.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

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.

Behind the Bluegrass Max Watman 2010

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.

Patt Morrison: Two Toxic Ideas: Border Fence, Border Poison 2009

In permanently wet or moist areas with fine, clayey soils and a rich humus layer, impenetrable canebrakes grow profusely in the understory.

Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests 2008

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.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006