canebrake

noun

Definition of canebrakenext
as in thicket

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Recent Examples of canebrake 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canebrake
  1. thicket
  2. chaparral
  3. brushwood
  4. forest
  5. coppice
  6. copse
  7. brake
  8. woodland
Noun
  • Either in an Elite Eight game that should be a Final Four game, or earlier in the especially thorny thicket that’s facing them as the lowest top seed?
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Just consider the agony of merging two or more sprawling thickets of technology.
    — Forbes, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of thicket
Noun
  • Within a few hours, what started as a small fire in the chaparral quickly spread to homes built at the edge of the wildlands, many of them big, expensive homes with nice views that had been built by people who wanted to be close to nature or wanted some buffer from the chaos of urban life.
    — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.
    — Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Definition of chaparral
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Definition of brushwood
Noun
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 Mar. 2025
  • More than 50 percent of the 751 million acres of forest land in the US is privately owned, and these owners decide how their land is managed.
    — Kiley Price, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2025
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
Noun
  • Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • After eight hours of hard fighting in a copse of trees near the hamlet of Kruglenkoe, the Ukrainians piled into armored trucks and sped back to the safety of the main Ukrainian line, half a mile to the east.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Definition of copse
Noun
  • Motor assistance modes can also be changed with the left brake lever rather than a button.
    — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Loans taken on as part of the infrastructure fund would also be exempt from the debt brake, while Germany’s states would also have greater flexibility around debt.
    — Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of brake
Noun
  • Each spring and fall, the Forest Preserve District of Kane County conducts prescribed burns across prairies, woodlands and wetlands in an effort to restore and maintain the ecological health of a site, district officials said in a press release on Friday.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Upon arrival, visitors are welcome to explore its sprawling woodlands, with vast forests of beech and fir playing host to a wealth of native Italian fauna.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of woodland

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