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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One showed the other the mass of drifting herbs, which threatened to break the long liane ropes which they were occupied in stretching at that moment.
From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Jules Verne
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
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
Even had I done so, I am not an expert on rubber, and would have understood nothing of Para trees, Lagos silk, and liane.
From The Congo and Coasts of Africa by Richard Harding Davis
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
