Look up: liana

1. Liana
   a woody-stemmed vine. Lianas are rooted in the substrate and use trees or shrubs as support; often their leaves and flowers reach the canopy of layer of the vegetation. A type of growthform.
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2. liana
   [n] - a woody climbing usually tropical plant
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3. Liana
   A vigorous woody vine (usually refers to tropical vines).
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4. liana
   <botany> 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. ... Origin: F. Liane; prob. Akin to lien a band, fr. L. Ligamen, fr. Ligare to bind. Cf. Lien. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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5. liana
   noun a woody climbing usually tropical plant
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6. Liana
   • (n.) 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.
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7. liana
   any long-stemmed, woody vine that is rooted in the soil and climbs or twines around other plants. They are a conspicuous component of tropical forest ... [2 related articles]
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8. Liana
   Liana is a Lat In girl name. The meaning of the name is `vine, to bind; youth ` Where is it used? The name Liana is mainly used In Italian, Portuguese and In English.It is an abbreviated form of Eliana, used In Italian and In Spanish.Juliana, used In Dutch, Scandinavian, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese and In Ancient Roman.How
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9. Liana
   (language) A C-like, interpretive, object-oriented programming language, class library, and integrated development environment designed specifically for development of application programs for Microsoft Windows and Windows NT. Designed by Jack Krupansky (Jack@BaseTechnology.com) of Base Technology,...
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10. Liana
    Species of plant that uses the support of wood plants to elevate its leaves above the forest canopy.
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11. liana
    liana (lēä'nu) or liane (lēän') , name for any climbing plant that roots in the ground. The term is most often used for the woody vines that form a characteristic part of tropical rain-forest vegetation; they are sometimes also called bushropes or simply vines. Although...
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12. liana
    Woody, perennial climbing plant with very long stems, which grows around trees right up to the top, where there is more sunlight. Lianas are common in tropical rainforests, where individual stems may grow up to 78 m/255 ft long. They have an unusual stem structure that makes them flexible, despite being woody
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13. Liana
    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 work=Encyclopedia Britannica-->--> Lianas are especially characteristic of Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests|...
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14. Liana
    (name) `Liana` is a female given name. Short form of Eliana, Juliana, Liliana and other names that end in liana. This is also the word for a type of vine that grows in jungles Name Days : Famous bearers : References : External links :
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