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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.
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Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
Extinguishing their patrol lights and flipping on their headlamps, the Slaughterhouse men patrolled the canals with shotguns cocked, leaping from the boat to grab their dead and pursue their wounded through the canebrake.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Of the 46 species of snakes known in Georgia, only six are venomous: copperhead, cottonmouth, Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, timber/canebrake rattlesnake, pigmy rattlesnake and Eastern coral snake.
—Nancy Clanton, ajc, 20 Apr. 2023
According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, the timber rattlesnake — also called the American viper, black rattlesnake, eastern rattlesnake, timber rattler and canebrake — is a large pit viper with a wide distribution across the eastern half of the U.S.
—Muri Assuncao New York Daily News (tns), al, 14 Aug. 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
Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
Extinguishing their patrol lights and flipping on their headlamps, the Slaughterhouse men patrolled the canals with shotguns cocked, leaping from the boat to grab their dead and pursue their wounded through the canebrake.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Of the 46 species of snakes known in Georgia, only six are venomous: copperhead, cottonmouth, Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, timber/canebrake rattlesnake, pigmy rattlesnake and Eastern coral snake.
—Nancy Clanton, ajc, 20 Apr. 2023
According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, the timber rattlesnake — also called the American viper, black rattlesnake, eastern rattlesnake, timber rattler and canebrake — is a large pit viper with a wide distribution across the eastern half of the U.S.
—Muri Assuncao New York Daily News (tns), al, 14 Aug. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canebrake
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In this era, ogival windows and flying buttresses would be more bracing than yet another thicket of computerized-looking shapes.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Now add an atmosphere — a thicket of gas molecules bound to the Earth by its gravitational pull.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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It's been fueled by a mix of timber, chaparral and brush.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Learn about the various lizards and snakes of Southern California’s mountains and chaparrals.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
Noun
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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The universally accessible All Persons Trail at Broadmoor winds through a hemlock forest to a boardwalk, where hikers may commune with wildlife on Pike’s Pond.—
Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
20 Sep. 2025
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Drones, a swift water team, cadaver dogs and GoPros punctured the peace in the tranquil and majestic mountains and triggered a closure of the Enchantments, an area popular for backcountry hiking and camping, as law enforcement scoured the forest for any signs of the bearded Army veteran.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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She’s squatted on her heels within a tight copse of five or six stones leaning like dolmens, chin on chest as if an engrossing thing lies between her feet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies.—
Jess Thomson,
Wired News,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Sep. 2025
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In addition, the standard requires that the system apply the brakes automatically up to 90 mph when a collision with a lead vehicle is imminent, and up to 45 mph when a pedestrian is detected.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Leaf-peeping draws travelers to woodlands across New England, but autumn gets equally splendid out west—especially in Grand Teton, my favorite national park to visit in the fall.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
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One morning in South Luangwa, our guide, Elias, led us quietly through the mopane woodland.—
Daniel Scheffler,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Canebrake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canebrake. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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