LIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liana mean? 

• LIANA (noun)
  The noun LIANA has 1 sense:

1. a woody climbing usually tropical plant

  Familiarity information: LIANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woody climbing usually tropical plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("liana" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liana"):

Dipladenia boliviensis; Mandevilla boliviensis; white dipladenia (shrubby climber having glossy leaves and white funnel-shaped flowers with yellow throats)

Chilean jasmine; Mandevilla laxa (woody vine of Argentina grown as an ornamental for its glossy leaves and racemes of large fragrant funnel-shaped creamy-white flowers)

Epipremnum aureum; golden pothos; ivy arum; pothos; Scindapsus aureus (evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage)

monstera (any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants)

philodendron (often grown as a houseplant)

pothos (any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus)

emerald creeper; jade vine; Strongylodon macrobotrys (vigorous Philippine evergreen twining liana; grown for spectacular festoons of green flowers that resemble lobster claws)

cynancum (any of various mostly giant tropical lianas of Africa and Madagascar having greenish or purple flowers and long smooth pods; roots formerly used as an emetic)

 Context examples 

In every other way they were our friends—one might almost say our devoted slaves—but when it was suggested that they should help us to make and carry a plank which would bridge the chasm, or when we wished to get from them thongs of leather or liana to weave ropes which might help us, we were met by a good-humored, but an invincible, refusal.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)