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Liana, Liane 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.

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... deny them and doubtless, though mayhap with a guilty conscience, I should have ditched the undertaking, consigned it to that heap of undone duties, where already lie notes on a comparison of Andalusian mules with the mules of Liane de Pougy, a few scribbled memoranda for a treatise on the love habits of the mole, and a half-finished biography of the talented gentleman who signed his works, "Nick Carter," if my by this time quite roving eye had not alighted, entirely fortuitously, ...

— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

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Words linked to "Liana" : Dipladenia boliviensis, cynancum, emerald creeper, Strongylodon macrobotrys, jade vine, white dipladenia, golden pothos, Chilean jasmine, pothos, philodendron, vine, monstera, ivy arum, Mandevilla boliviensis, Scindapsus aureus, Mandevilla laxa