Liana
[liːˈɑːnə]Meaning
short form of Juliana and Liliana; also a jungle vine
Background Story
Liana is a short form of Juliana, Liliana and other names ending in -liana. It is also the word for a type of vine that grows in jungles, from French liane, itself from an Antilles French dialect word meaning 'to sheave'. The name is used in Albanian, Armenian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian and other languages.
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