1. Canebrakes once covered large multi-acre areas of river bottom land in the southeastern U.S

2. Bottomland - low-lying alluvial land near a river bottom land , soil , ground - material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"

3. The Bottomlands are all the lands from where the new river’s edge (is) back to where it would have been underneath the edge of the former pond (or lake).” Breederland explained that Michigan has riparian laws for inland lakes that usually means triangle-shaped pieces of land under the water belong to the person with bottom land ownership.