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- noun Plural form of
canebreak .
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Yes, sometimes killing them-- twenty- foot high canebreaks may have grown afterwards in the south .
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It's not just passenger pigeons or the bountiful numbers of cranes or the various ducks; Audubon also described canebreaks along the Mississippi which no longer exist; mangroves which no longer exist; forests wiped out or utterly changed.
John Audubon mariness 2005
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