Definitions for lianas

lianas li·a·na

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

Lianas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in lianas (aailns).

Definitions for lianas

noun

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

Origin of lianas

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 lianas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for lianas
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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