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bushrope en · NOUN

Etymology

From bush + rope.

Meanings

1. 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 smoke. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 312:
   • 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:
   • 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, glorious bignonias, and splendidly beautiful passion-flowers, filling the air with fragrance, and intertwining, in an embrace that death only can put aside, with creepers, bushropes, and interminable lianes. 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. Nelson and Sons, […]; Edinburgh; New York, pages 114–115:
   • 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:

Forms

Synonyms

liana