Thesaurus results for CANEBRAKE

canebrake

noun

Definition of canebrake

as in thicket

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Recent Examples of canebrake This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line. — Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025 The canebrake or timber rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) is a big, heavy-bodied snake that can grow to 6 feet in length. — Mandi Albright, ajc, 26 Apr. 2022 The forest hid behind pioneer vegetation, the same canebrakes and cecropia trees over and over. — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019 Those that are venomous include the diamondback rattlesnake, canebrake rattlesnake, pigmy rattlesnake, the copperhead, and cottonmouth or water moccasin. — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 10 July 2019

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Noun

The Last Bison surrounded him with a thicket of acoustic instrumentation, including guitar, banjo, bass, and mandolin, while Fallon, cowboy hat planted firmly on his head, joined the fray with a washboard.

— Sophie Miller, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2026
If this continues, whether as a coordinated effort or a thicket of unilateral measures, the effect on China could be a sudden and sustained shortfall in external demand.

— Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of thicket

Noun

Stepping on stems is attention-getting, but the result is a wine that echoes the chaparral of the hillsides surrounding the vineyard.

— Laura Ness, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
An adventure among the mustangs, the chaparrals, the arroyos, the wide purple this and that.

— Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026

Definition of chaparral

Noun

Archaeologists found that the site’s foragers had crafted small huts from brushwood, weaving them into dome-like structures enclosing a central hearth.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
Here, the train rolls into one of Scotland’s most remote stations, arriving via a line built up on a raft of roots and brushwood because traditional foundations failed in the boggy ground.

— Rosie Conroy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026

Definition of brushwood

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Meanwhile, in northern Greece, more than 300 vacationers and residents were evacuated by sea Thursday after a wildfire swept through a pine forest and threatened seaside homes, authorities said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Come fall, the forests turn shades of gold and crimson, before snow and evergreens dominate the landscape in winter.

— Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of forest

Noun

The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.

— Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.

— Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020

Definition of coppice

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Export controls on chips and AI systems, such as the brief ban on overseas access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 model this summer, don’t appear to be putting the brakes on Chinese competitors.

— Saritha Rai, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
The suspension, steering, brakes, dampers, camber settings and electronic stability systems have all been revised.

— Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of brake

Noun

Designed by Officina82, the TreeBox is nestled among some woodland in a picturesque spot in Garessio, Italy.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2026
With France experiencing its driest year ever, a new fire raced through woodlands overnight in the Landes region on the southwest coast.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

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