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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 retaliation works, and soon Cole and his men are marching on foot, scrabbling their way through thickets and swamps.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Across the street, the Llano River splashes its way over limestone formations and into reed thickets.

— Pam LeBlanc, Southern Living, 20 July 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

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

Noun

Flying down the length of this thing, then, means a helluva a lot of slamming on the brakes.

— Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 July 2026
On Monday, the day before he was fired, General Syrsky issued a call for the tech accelerationists inside the government to pump the brakes.

— Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026

Definition of brake

Noun

Marmots, woodland creatures whose raw viscera are believed by Siberians to have medicinal properties, are not infrequently hunted by poachers and sold at wet markets.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
The experts also said that the area would perform better ecologically thanks to projects like planting pockets of wet woodland.

— Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 24 July 2026

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