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canebrake en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkeɪnbɹeɪk/
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  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From cane + brake.

Meanings

  1. (US) A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants.
    • While roving carelessly from canebrake to canebrake, and admiring the rank growth of vegetation, and the variety of timber which marked the fertility of the soil... 1865, Cecil B. Hartley, Life and Times of Colonel Daniel Boone, page 52:

Forms

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canebrakes Number=Plur lexicographic
canebreak alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

canebrake groundcreeper · canebrake rattlesnake

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