| 单词 | cane-brake |
| 释义 | > as lemmascane-brake cane-brake n. (a) a brake or thicket of canes; (also) a tract of land thickly overgrown with canes (Arundinaria macrosperma); (b) a genus of grasses, Arundinaria, allied to the bamboo. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > tropical > bamboo and allies cane1398 Indian cane1578 bamboo1598 mambu1598 cane-brake1770 cane grass1827 switch cane1845 metake1896 bamboo-grass1909 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > cane > assemblage of cane-brake1770 cane-piece1774 cane1784 1770 S. Carolina Gaz. 18 Oct. There is a large Neck, or Island, of Swamp or Cane-Brake Land. 1784 J. Filson Adventures D. Boon in Discov. Kentucke App. 52 We lay in a thick cane-brake by a large fire. 1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 125 The wild lands are finely timbered with pine,..willow, and occasionally impervious cane brakes. 1834 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. ii. 63 The impassable cane-brakes, and the dense woods. 1840 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost (1855) 266 They were generally pitched..close by a canebrake, to screen us from the wind. 1869 Overland Monthly 3 129 When you see a man..get a cold boiled sweet potato..and a piece of canebrake cheese..you may be certain he is a North Carolinian. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Cane-brake region. Cane-brake soil. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 14 So in the cane-brake he clasped his hands in delight. < as lemmas |
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