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canebreak

canebreak is the alternative spelling of canebrake.

Meaning of canebrake

Noun

canebrake (plural canebrakes)

  1. (US) A dense thicket of sugarcane, bamboo or similar plants.
    • While roving carelessly from canebrake to canebrake, and admiring the rank growth of vegetation, and the variety of timber which marked the fertility of the soil...1865, Cecil B. Hartley, Life and Times of Colonel Daniel Boone, page 52

Forms of canebreak

pluralcanebreaks

Questions about canebreak

What is canebreak the alternative spelling of?
Canebreak is the alternative spelling of canebrake.

Words near canebreak in the dictionary

  1. canebrake
  2. canebrake groundcreeper
  3. canebrake groundcreepers
  4. canebrake rattlesnake
  5. canebrakes
  6. canebreak
  7. canebreaks
  8. canecutter
  9. canecutters
  10. caned
  11. caned it

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canebreak (page history and authors); canebrake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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