different between liana vs bougainvillea

English

Etymology

From French liane, influenced by lien (“link, bond”). The word comes from the western dialects of West Indian French.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??n?

Noun

liana (plural lianas)

1. (botany) A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.
   • 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Chapter 2,^[1]

     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.

   • 1884, Achilles Daunt, Frank Redcliffe: A story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela (A Book for Boys), London: T. Nelson & Sons, Chapter 5, p. 99,^[2]

     Flowering lianas hung in long streaming lines from the outstretched boughs and dipped their pendulous bouquets in the water of the igarape, which reflected the cloudless blue of the sky.

   • 1943, Allied Geographical Section, Southwest Pacific Area, Getting About in New Guinea, 4 April, 1943, p. 6,^[3]

     Allow friendly natives to walk in front of you on the track. They have sharp eyes for pitfalls, snakes, hornets, and stinging plants. They will cut the lianas and thorny trailers. They like to do it.

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3,

     They left the drive and stood among the wild tannia under the saman tree. Mrs Tulsi held a liana and offered it to Mr Biswas. While he felt it, she held a thinner liana and pulled it down. ‘As strong as rope,’ she said. ‘The children could skip with this.’

Translations

See also

• climber
• rattan
• scrambler
• twiner
• vine

Anagrams

• Al Ain, Alani, Alina, IANAL, Lanai, lanai

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lja.na/, (traditional) /li?a.na/

Noun

liana f (plural liane)

1. liana (vine)
2. plot (complicated)

Anagrams

• alani
• anali
• inala

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?a.na/

Noun

liana f

1. liana

Declension

Further reading

• liana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From French liane, of unknown ultimate origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ljana/, [?lja.na]

Noun

liana f (plural lianas)

1. liana

   Synonyms: bejuco, guaco

Further reading

• “liana” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-liana (infinitive kuliana)

1. Reciprocal form of -lia

Conjugation

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• bougainvillaea

Etymology

Named after French admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bu?.??n?v?l.?.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bu.??n?v?l.j?/, /?bo?.??n?v?l.j?/

Noun

bougainvillea (plural bougainvilleas)

1. Any of several South American flowering shrubs or lianas, of the genus Bougainvillea, having three showy, colorful bracts attached below each group of three inconspicuous flowers.

Translations

Finnish

(index b)

Noun

bougainvillea

1. bougainvillea

Declension

Synonyms

• ihmeköynnös

Portuguese

Noun

bougainvillea f (plural bougainvilleas)

1. bougainvillea (flower)