请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 liana
释义

liana

/lɪˈɑːnə /
(also liane /lɪˈɑːn/)
noun
1A woody climbing plant that hangs from trees, especially in tropical rainforests.Finally, this work represents part of a long-term research effort in which mechanical architectures are being investigated in terms of the evolution of architectures of trees, shrubs, lianas and procumbent growth forms....
  • These features, and very different life forms ranging from trees and lianas to annuals, occur within closely related groups.
  • The leaves of the understory shrubs, lianas, and sapling trees bear the unmistakable signs of damage by hungry insects.
1.1The free-hanging stem of a liana.Tropical forest foragers fashion their own nets from lianas, and make belt pouches, baskets, and mats from grasses....
  • There they climb into a series of wooden constructions three metres high, made with tree trunks lashed together with lianas like tree houses perched above the flood.
  • Bunched optical fibers and acrylic light ducts draped like lianas from the ceiling, pulsing with digital information.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French liane 'clematis, liana', of unknown origin.

Rhymes

随便看

 

英语词典包含243303条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 21:12:02