单词 | liana |
释义 | lianan. The name given to the various climbing and twining plants which abound in tropical forests. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > tropical quamoclit1633 sippo1657 monkey vine1750 goat's foot1773 Ipomœa1785 liana1796 Thunbergia?1799 morning-glory1814 gaybine1842 cypress vine1846 bejuco1848 scindapsus1848 Rangoon creeper1850 moonflower1859 kaladana1866 moon-lily1888 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 231 The nebees, called by the French liannes, by the Spaniards bejucos, and in Surinam tay-tay.] 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 748 Liannes interwoven from trunk to trunk. 1833 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 267 Spite of all its brambles and lianas. 1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) ii. 25 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. 1863 R. F. Burton Abeokuta I. 24 Lliana. 1885 A. Brassey In Trades 136 Palms of every variety, all covered with gigantic lianes. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right III. xxxvi. 150 A stone bridge..clasped with close lianas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1796 |
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