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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canebrake \Cane"brake\ (k[=a]n"br[=a]k`), n.
A thicket of canes.
--Ellicott.
Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants. n. (context US English) A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants.
WordNet
n. a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)
Wikipedia
A canebrake is a thick, dense growth of cane or sugarcane.
Canebrake may also refer to:
Places in the North America:- Canebrake (region of Alabama)
- Canebrake, California in Kern County
- Canebrake (former town), California in Kern County
- Canebrake Ecological Reserve in Kern County, California
- Canebrake (Ferriday, Louisiana), in Concordia Parish, listed on the NRHP in Louisiana
- Canebrake, Mississippi in Lamar County, Mississippi
- Canebrake, South Carolina in Greenville County, South Carolina
- Canebrake, Tennessee in Rutherford County, Tennessee
- Canebrake, West Virginia in McDowell County
- Cape Canaveral, a town in Brevard County, Florida, or "Canebrake", translated from the original Spanish Cañaveral
- Canebrake groundcreeper, a species of ovenbird
- Canebrake rattlesnake, a species of venomous pit viper
- Canebrake tree frogs, a genus of tree frog
- Canebrake wren or plain wren, a species of wren
The Canebrake refers to a historical region of west-central Alabama that was once dominated by thickets of Arundinaria, a type of bamboo, or cane, native to North America. It was centered on the junction of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior rivers, near Demopolis, and extended eastward to include large parts of Hale, Marengo, and Perry counties. Portions of Greene and Sumter were also often included.
Cane thickets once covered hundreds of thousands of acres in Alabama, but this area, lying within the Black Belt, had the most extensive stands and was known as "The Canebrake." It was noted by naturalist William Bartram as he traveled along the Tombigbee River in 1775. He described cane that was "thick as a man's arm, or three or four inches in diameter; I suppose one joint of some of them would contain above a quart of water."
The cane began to disappear with the large-scale arrival of white settlers following the Creek Wars. The settlers introduced crops that replaced the native cane and their suppression of fire allowed the cane in other areas to be overtaken by species that would have naturally been kept in check by fire. However, as late as 1845 Scottish geologist Charles Lyell noted the height and density of the canebrakes along the Black Warrior River.
A canebrake or canebreak is a thicket of any of a variety of Arundinaria grasses: A. gigantea, A. tecta and A. appalachiana. As a bamboo, these giant grasses grow in thickets up to 8 m tall. A. gigantea is generally found in stream valleys and ravines throughout the southeastern US. A. tecta is a smaller stature species found on the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains. Finally, A. appalachiana is found in more upland areas at the southern end of the Appalachian mountains.
Canebrakes were formerly widespread in the Southern United States but have been widely replaced by agriculture. Concomitant with this destruction have been challenges to the survival of the Florida panther (Puma concolor subsp. coryi) and Bachman's warbler (Vermivora bachmanii), the latter of which is critically endangered and may in fact be extinct. Other species considered canebreak specialists include several butterfly species, and Swainson's warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii). Swainson's warbler has recently been found to use pine plantations (widespread across the Southeastern United States) of a particular age, as they may provide the structural features and prey base that the species seeks.
Canes can reproduce asexually and rapidly, an adaptation that allows them to persist quietly in the shade of a forest for years and rapidly take advantage of disturbance which disrupts the overstory, such as blowdowns, floods or hurricanes. When released in this way, canes can quickly recoccupy these gaps.
Canebrake is a historic mansion in Ferriday, Louisiana, U.S.. It was built in 1840. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 29, 1982.
Usage examples of "canebrake".
Brehani found the first calf caught in the canebrake that we found out what we were up against.
Lalique and Jibril had cut in the canebrake and eased our way carefully into it.
The grass was high and thick and the canebrake was so dense that passage through it seemed impossible.
Forest, open and canebrake alike were swarming with game, and he saw buffaloes, deer, wild turkeys, and multitudes of rabbits and squirrels.
Sid, you and Bob Sharp go down into the canebrake there and get two or three dozen of the longest canes you can find.
I scooted under a low-hanging limb and headed for a canebrake right ahead.
Gazt, a long, shallow harbor in the hot marshlands south of the canebrake country.
He stepped through a wall of canebrake into the thick hot shadows of the forest.
Lady Sylvester Elmshade, Mrs Barbara Lovebirch, Mrs Poll Ash, Mrs Holly Hazeleyes, Miss Daphne Bays, Miss Dorothy Canebrake, Mrs Clyde Twelvetrees, Mrs Rowan Greene, Mrs Helen Vinegadding, Miss Virginia Creeper, Miss Gladys Beech, Miss Olive Garth, Miss Blanche Maple, Mrs Maud Mahogany, Miss Myra Myrtle, Miss Priscilla Elderflower, Miss Bee Honeysuckle, Miss Grace Poplar, Miss O Mimosa San, Miss Rachel Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall, Mrs Kitty Dewey-Mosse, Miss May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence.
The wind swirled inside the trees and wrinkled the surface of the bayou, and in the rustling of the canebrake she thought she heard the word Judas hissed in her ear.
Ryan tried to suppress a heartfelt sigh of relief at leaving the canebrakes, and he saw that the others were doing so, as well.
The boys had marched for three days through canebrakes, and swamps, and had still a long march before them.
Less bloody-minded civilizations of the equatorial zone merely pushed the remnant Aq populations into the deserts and barely habitable canebrakes of the coast.
Riqim, on the northeast continent, and back to the Mediro, a rocky plateau far inland from the southernmost canebrakes of the great south continent.
And he would turn to Miss Moorsom for approval, lowering protectingly his spatulous nose and looking up with feeling from under his absurd eyebrows, which grew thin, in the manner of canebrakes, out of his spongy skin.