bushrope
bushrope noun: synonym of liana.
Noun
bushrope (plural bushropes)
- Synonym of liana.
- Slung to his girdle he carried a long thin coil of cord; and while he had been making these preparations, one of his companions had cut a strong creeper or bush-rope eight or ten yards long, to one end of which the wood-torch was fastened, and lighted at the bottom, emitting a steady stream of...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 312
- The general character of the Bornean forests is necessarily tropical. In the higher regions the traveller gazes delightedly on the infinite number of fantastically flowering orchids, and arborescent ferns with colossal leaves of filmy lace-work, perennial urticeæ (or nettles) three feet high...1880, W[illiam] H[enry] Davenport Adams, The Eastern Archipelago: A Description of the Scenery, Animal and Vegetable Life, People, and Physical Wonders of the Islands in the Eastern Seas, London: T....
- Synonyms:
- liana
bushrope meaning in Tamil
bushrope in Tamil
- படரும் கொடி
Examples of bushrope in a sentence
- He had to climb a bushrope to save himself in a tree, and there he was held up for twenty-four hours until the peccary forgot what they had come for.1906, Game Laws in Brief and Woodcraft Magazine, page 111:
- Yesterday I lay in a bushrope hammock in an Indian house, finishing a flash-card lesson on numbers.1977, Merrill F. Unger, What Demons Can Do to Saints, Moody Publishers, published 1991:
Synonyms of bushrope
Forms of bushrope
| plural | bushropes |
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Origin of bushrope
From bush + rope.
Questions about bushrope
- What does bushrope mean?
- Bushrope means synonym of liana.
- What is bushrope in Tamil?
- Bushrope in Tamil is படரும் கொடி. See Bushrope meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use bushrope in a sentence?
- He had to climb a bushrope to save himself in a tree, and there he was held up for twenty-four hours until the peccary forgot what they had come for.
- What part of speech is bushrope?
- Bushrope is a noun.
- What is the plural of bushrope?
- The plural of bushrope is bushropes.
Words near bushrope in the dictionary
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