liana

From French liane, influenced by lien (“link, bond”). The word comes from the western dialects of West Indian French.

• IPA^(key): /liːˈɑːnə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

liana (plural lianas)

1. (botany) A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.
   • 1839, Robert FitzRoy; Phillip Parker King; Charles Darwin, chapter 2, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 228675426:

     Many of the older trees presented a very curious appearance from the tresses of a liana hanging from their boughs, and resembling bundles of hay.

   • 1884, Achilles Daunt, Frank Redcliffe: A story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela (A Book for Boys), London: T. Nelson & Sons, Chapter 5, p. 99,

     Flowering lianas hung in long streaming lines from the outstretched boughs and dipped their pendulous bouquets in the water of the igarape, which reflected the cloudless blue of the sky.

   • 1943, Allied Geographical Section, Southwest Pacific Area, Getting About in New Guinea, 4 April, 1943, p. 6,

     Allow friendly natives to walk in front of you on the track. They have sharp eyes for pitfalls, snakes, hornets, and stinging plants. They will cut the lianas and thorny trailers. They like to do it.

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3,

     They left the drive and stood among the wild tannia under the saman tree. Mrs Tulsi held a liana and offered it to Mr Biswas. While he felt it, she held a thinner liana and pulled it down. ‘As strong as rope,’ she said. ‘The children could skip with this.’

• climber
• rattan
• scrambler
• twiner
• vine

• Al Ain, Alani, Alina, IANAL, Lanai, lanai

From English liana, from French liane, influenced by lien (“link, bond”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlia̯na/
• Hyphenation: lia‧na

liana (first-person possessive lianaku, second-person possessive lianamu, third-person possessive liananya)

1. (botany) liana: a climbing woody vine, usually tropical.

• “liana” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlja.na/, (traditional) /liˈa.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: lià‧na, (traditional) li‧à‧na

liana f (plural liane)

1. liana (vine)
2. plot (complicated)

• Alina, alani, anali, inala

Borrowed from French liane.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlja.na/

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: lia‧na

liana f

1. liana

• liana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• liana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French liane, of unknown ultimate origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈljana/ [ˈlja.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: lia‧na

liana f (plural lianas)

1. liana

   Synonyms: bejuco, guaco

• “liana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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-liana (infinitive kuliana)

1. Reciprocal form of -lia