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liana
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun liana has 1 sense
- liana(n = noun.plant) - a woody climbing usually tropical plant; has particulars: dipladenia boliviensis, mandevilla boliviensis, white dipladenia, chilean jasmine, mandevilla laxa, epipremnum aureum, golden pothos, ivy arum, pothos, scindapsus aureus, monstera, philodendron, pothos, emerald creeper, jade vine, strongylodon macrobotrys, cynancum
is a kind of vine
CIDE DICTIONARY
A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
liana, n. (also liane) any of several climbing and twining plants of tropical forests.
Etymology
F liane, lierne clematis, of uncert. orig.
THESAURUS
liana
algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack
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