liana

Other forms of liana

plural

lianas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about liana

What does liana mean?

liana means "a woody climbing usually tropical plant".

How many syllables are in liana?

liana has 3 syllables: li-a-na. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /liˈɑnə/.

Is liana a common word?

liana is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with liana?

5 words rhyme with liana. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.