canebrakes

noun

plural of canebrake
as in brakes

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  1. brakes
  2. chaparrals
  3. thickets
  4. woods
  5. forests
  6. woodlands
  7. copses
Noun
  • The brakes, while cable-operated, do an effective job of slowing and stopping the Vienna.
    — William Roberson, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Brake gently as needed - Brake normally if the vehicle has anti-lock brakes and pump brakes gently if in an older vehicle.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of brakes
Noun
  • An adventure among the mustangs, the chaparrals, the arroyos, the wide purple this and that.
    — Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Definition of chaparrals
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 thickets
Noun
  • Inspired by the discussion, Gaines, who was living on a farm in New Hampshire at the time, devised a survival game using sheep-marking dye pellets, hosting the first iteration in woods on his land in June 1981.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 July 2026
  • In the clip, a person is seen slowly jogging through a town and in the woods, a field, and other natural settings.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2026
Definition of woods
Noun
  • Behind the story Ituri, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is a remote province of forests, green hills and gold mines where weak state institutions and decades of armed conflict have displaced nearly 900,000 people.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 July 2026
  • Healthy soils, wetlands, forests and working ecosystems aren’t just environmental assets.
    — Sara Roversi, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of forests
Noun
  • The sprawling Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area offers even more spectacular scenery, with hundreds of miles of hiking trails winding through rugged peaks, coastal canyons, oak woodlands, and scenic overlooks.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2026
  • Bedell was an organizer of opposition early last year when Tilcon sought to rezone 83 acres of woodlands to allow expansion of its quarry.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
Definition of woodlands
Noun
  • The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
  • Walk in forests where dragonflies buzz and orchids bloom in secret copses.
    — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
Definition of copses
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