liana
noun
any of various usually woody vines that may climb as high as the tree canopy in a tropical forest.
liane
-
a variation of
liana.
Example Sentences
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The most striking of these creepers is, perhaps, the liane, whose tendrils grow straight downwards to the ground, twisting themselves together in knots and bundles.
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey
Sliding down a liane, he told what he had seen.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
In passing the liane bridge they never suspected that, beneath that mass of herbs which the current bore onward, there was a little boy who would have exactly served to amuse them.
From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
At two o'clock in the afternoon the buccaneers pushed through a thicket of liane and green cane, and debouched quite suddenly upon the barren hilltop facing San Lorenzo Castle.
From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by John Masefield
The grapevine often has the habit of a liane.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L by Project Gutenberg
