Although some lianas produce fruits and habitat for animals, they are devastating for most trees. One liana we found had more than 10 different rooting points within a few square meters.
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Liana
//liːˈɑːnə//
Synonyms for "liana" (58 found)
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Translations
31 translations across 26 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аӡахәа noun (climbing woody vine)
Bulgarian
2 entries- лиа́н noun (climbing woody vine)
- лиа́на noun (climbing woody vine)
Catalan
1 entries- liana noun (climbing woody vine)
Danish
1 entries- lian noun (climbing woody vine)
Dutch
1 entries- liaan noun (climbing woody vine)
Esperanto
1 entries- liano noun (climbing woody vine)
Finnish
1 entries- liaani noun (climbing woody vine)
German
1 entries- Liane noun (climbing woody vine)
Greek
1 entries- λιάνα noun (climbing woody vine)
Hungarian
1 entries- lián noun (climbing woody vine)
Ido
1 entries- liano noun (climbing woody vine)
Indonesian
1 entries- liana noun (climbing woody vine)
Italian
1 entries- liana noun (climbing woody vine)
Khmer
1 entries- លតា noun (climbing woody vine)
Korean
1 entries- 덩굴나무 noun (climbing woody vine)
Marathi
3 entries- काष्ठलता noun (climbing woody vine)
- महालता noun (climbing woody vine)
- महावेल noun (climbing woody vine)
Polish
1 entries- liana noun (climbing woody vine)
Portuguese
2 entries- cipó noun (climbing woody vine)
- liana noun (climbing woody vine)
Romanian
1 entries- liană noun (climbing woody vine)
Russian
1 entries- лиа́на noun (climbing woody vine)
Sranan Tongo
1 entries- busititei noun (climbing woody vine)
Swedish
1 entries- lian noun (climbing woody vine)
Tagalog
2 entries- baging noun (climbing woody vine)
- dakbaging noun (climbing woody vine)
Tocharian B
1 entries- laitke noun (climbing woody vine)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ліа́на noun (climbing woody vine)
Welsh
1 entries- liana noun (climbing woody vine)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
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.
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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.
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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.
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