liana
English
editEtymology
editFrom French liane, influenced by lien (“link, bond”). The word comes from the western dialects of West Indian French.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /liːˈɑːnə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːnə
Noun
editliana (plural lianas)
- (botany) A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.
- 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter II, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- 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,[1]
- 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 April 4, Allied Geographical Section, Southwest Pacific Area, Getting About in New Guinea, page 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, published 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.’
Translations
editclimbing woody vine
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See also
editAnagrams
editIndonesian
editEtymology
editFrom English liana, from French liane, influenced by lien (“link, bond”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editliana (first-person possessive lianaku, second-person possessive lianamu, third-person possessive liananya)
Further reading
edit- “liana” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈlja.na/, (traditional) /liˈa.na/
- Rhymes: -ana
- Hyphenation: lià‧na, (traditional) li‧à‧na
Noun
editliana f (plural liane)
Anagrams
editPolish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editliana f
Declension
editDeclension of liana
Further reading
editPortuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: li‧a‧na
Noun
editliana f (plural lianas)
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French liane, of unknown ultimate origin.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editliana f (plural lianas)
Further reading
edit- “liana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
editPronunciation
editVerb
edit-liana (infinitive kuliana)
- Reciprocal form of -lia
Conjugation
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