Crossword clues for liana
liana
- Ascending vine
- Tarzan's "rope"
- Tropical creeper
- Climber wants a spike returned
- Climber needing a metal spike to get up
- Climber in a fix on the ascent
- Woody climbing tropical plant - a nail
- Brad brought up a climber
- Tropical plant
- Tarzan's transport
- Tarzan's swing
- Rain forest vine
- Climbing tropical vine
- Vine for Tarzan
- Rainforest vine
- Rainforest climber
- Hawaiian vine
- Wild grape vine
- Tropical woody climbing plant
- Thick jungle vine
- Tarzan's vine
- Rain forest climber
- It makes Tarzan a swinger
- It made Tarzan a swinger
- It helps Tarzan be a real swinger
- Entwining vine
- Dangling vine in the rain forest
- Amazonian vine
- Tropical vine
- Gorilla's swing
- Climbing vine
- Tropical climber
- Transport for Tarzan
- Bushrope
- Thick vine
- Jungle vine
- Tropical growth
- Climbing plant
- Jungle climber
- Tropical forest vine
- Jungle obstacle
- Monkey ladder vine
- Forest vine
- A woody climbing usually tropical plant
- High-climbing vine
- Vine of the tropics
- Rain-forest climber
- Rain-forest vine
- Woody vine
- Climber in hot regions
- Wild grapevine
- Monkey's swing
- Rain-forest plant
- Tropical climbing vine
- Jungle ivy
- Mexican hut-builder's vine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liane \Li*ane"\ (l[-i]*[=a]n"), Liana \Li*a"na\ (l[-i]*[=a]"n[.a]), n. [F. liane; prob. akin to lien a band, fr. L. ligamen, fr. ligare to bind. Cf. Lien, n. ] (Bot.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.
Wiktionary
n. A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.
WordNet
n. a woody climbing usually tropical plant
Wikipedia
A liana is any of various long- stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest. Lianas are characteristic of tropical moist deciduous forests (especially seasonal forests), but may be found in temperate rainforests. There are also temperate lianas, for example the members of the Clematis or Vitis (wild grape) genera. Lianas can form bridges amidst the forest canopy, providing arboreal animals with paths across the forest. These bridges can protect weaker trees from strong winds. Lianas compete with forest trees for sunlight, water and nutrients from the soil.
The term "liana" is not a taxonomic grouping, but rather a description of the way the plant grows – much like " tree" or " shrub". Lianas may be found in many different plant families. One way of distinguishing lianas from trees and shrubs is based on the stiffness, specifically, the Young's modulus of various parts of the stem. Trees and shrubs have young twigs and smaller branches which are quite flexible and older growth such as trunks and large branches which are stiffer. A liana often has stiff young growths and older growth, at the base of the stem, which is more flexible.
A liana is a type of vine.
Liana may also refer to:
- Liana (name), a given name and persons with it
- Suzuki Aerio, a car
- Liana (novel), by Martha Gellhorn
Liana is a female given name. It is a short form of Eliana, Juliana, Liliana and other names that end in liana.
Usage examples of "liana".
They had moved in and made their bivouac at the foot of an old abandoned railroad embankment that jutted up nudely out of the scrubby liana and keawe jungle a couple of hundred yards inside the fence.
It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.
It took a while to find a suitable one, in that tangle of coiling lianas, but finally he succeeded, using his smatchet blade to hack himself a light five-foot pole.
Three-storied, deep-moated by Liana Creek, and shaped a square, it enclosed a large, grassed siege-yard for sheep, a roofed swinery for boar, and runs for chicken-birds.
Elroy wanted to climb lianas, gather bananas in the clearings, and hunt tamarin monkeys in the high forest canopy.
Occasionally through the umbrella of foliage, they could see the undermass of the jungle, the fallen and decayed trunks everywhere, over and about them the thickets, the vines that draped from trees a hundred and fifty feet high, the incredible tangle of lianas everywhere, and the gaudy sick-bright colors of the flowers.
And lower down the great forest trees arch over it, and the sunbeams trickle through them, and dance in many a quiet pool, turning the far-down sands to gold, brightening majestic tree-ferns, and shining on the fragile polypodium tamariscinum which clings tremblingly to the branches of the graceful waringhan, on a beautiful lygodium which adorns the uncouth trunk of an artocarpus, on glossy ginger-worts and trailing yams, on climbers and epiphytes, and on gigantic lianas which, climbing to the tops of the tallest trees, descend in vast festoons, many of them with orange and scarlet flowers and fruitage, passing from tree to tree, and interlacing the forest with a living network, while selaginellas and lindsayas, and film ferns, and trichomanes radicans drape the rocks in feathery green, along with mosses scarcely distinguishable from ferns.
She had never realized the forest was so lush, trees reaching into clouds, the dark undergrowth crowded with broadleaf foliage, lianas festooned with orchids, and bright .
Lady Sylvester Elmshade, Mrs Barbara Lovebirch, Mrs Poll Ash, Mrs Holly Hazeleyes, Miss Daphne Bays, Miss Dorothy Canebrake, Mrs Clyde Twelvetrees, Mrs Rowan Greene, Mrs Helen Vinegadding, Miss Virginia Creeper, Miss Gladys Beech, Miss Olive Garth, Miss Blanche Maple, Mrs Maud Mahogany, Miss Myra Myrtle, Miss Priscilla Elderflower, Miss Bee Honeysuckle, Miss Grace Poplar, Miss O Mimosa San, Miss Rachel Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall, Mrs Kitty Dewey-Mosse, Miss May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence.
It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.
But when the Hams saw her stalking around the forest lashing at branches and lianas, or, worse, muttering to herself, they became disturbed.
The tendril is an everyday hybridoma of liana, earthworm, and slime mold.
They had moved in and made their bivouac at the foot of an old abandoned railroad embankment that jutted up nudely out of the scrubby liana and keawe jungle a couple of hundred yards inside the fence.
Ethan stripped palmlike fronds from a low growing clump, spread them on the sheltered space beneath the mat of lianas.
Without a word, Ethan stripped palmlike fronds from a low growing clump, spread them on the sheltered space beneath the mat of lianas.