CANEBRAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does canebrake mean? 

• CANEBRAKE (noun)
  The noun CANEBRAKE has 1 sense:

1. a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)

  Familiarity information: CANEBRAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANEBRAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("canebrake" is a kind of...):

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket (a dense growth of bushes)

Meronyms (parts of "canebrake"):

Arundinaria gigantea; cane reed; giant cane (tall grass of southern United States growing in thickets)