Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various climbing, woody, usually tropical vines.
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- noun A
climbing woody vine , usuallytropical .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We think that elevated CO2 may also favor liana proliferation, especially under a slightly drier scenario, a drier climate.
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We think tropical forests in the Americans are drying out a little bit, which would favor liana proliferation.
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He leaned out further over the abyss, tightening his grip on the seemingly unbreakable liana nearby.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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Or to swing my legs like Tarzan on a liana around my partner's waist?
Wishing For Limber Limbs Patrizia Chen 2010
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Below-he gripped the liana ever tighter-below and down an equally great distance, somewhere at the Fifth Level, lay a brilliant blue object that caught the sun like the axe.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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They had to be eighty feet high and thirty feet across, all draped in those liana vines.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010
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Write to Liana B. B.ker at liana. balinsky-baker@dowjones.com
A Synagogue's Unorthodox Revival Liana B. Baker 2010
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These liana forests occupy thousands of square kilometers on the high relief in the south and southeast portion of the region.
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Or to swing my legs like Tarzan on a liana around my partner's waist?
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Prominent tree species include Lecythis odora, Lecythis turbinata, brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa, rare in this area), Cenostigma tocantina, Bombax tocantinum, and the large liana Bauhinia bombaciflora.
chained_bear commented on the word liana
"'...when we were both felled to the ground by what at first I took to be a heavy branch or rather liana; yet the liana writhed with great force and I quickly perceived that it was in fact an enormous serpent that had fallen from a tree...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 190–191
February 21, 2008