Definitions for Liana

Liana li·a·na

Spelling: [lee-ah-nuh, -an-uh]
IPA: /liˈɑ nə, -ˈæn ə/

Liana is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Liana (aailn).

Definitions for Liana

noun

  1. any of various usually woody vines that may climb as high as the tree canopy in a tropical forest.

Origin of Liana

1790-1800; earlier liannes (plural), apparently misspelling of French lianes, plural of liane, derivative of lier to bind; spelling with -a is Latinized or pseudo-Spanish

Examples for Liana

To an extent, such ambitions are complementary, yet liana is not interested in “extreme biography.”

liana turned, and saw her hastily and violently drying her eyes.

When liana had read a book, he read it after her; often he read it first and she last.

He gazed upon it tenderly, and said again and again, "Dear liana!"

He then slaps and punches another woman, liana Kanelli, from the Communist Party, across the face—three times.

The man erect had, tied to his waistbelt by a piece of liana, a skull.

The red-robed papaloi was fumbling with a rope that hung from a liana.

liana, as a daughter and a lover, retouched all his hopes with her own.

In the apartment which adjoined liana's they found her piano-forte open.

Mamoon and his second wife, liana, hope it will revive his reputation, and “prompt the reissuing of his books in forty languages.”

Word Value for Liana
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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