Meaning of bushrope | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of liana.

Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Yesterday I lay⟳ in a bushrope hammock in an Indian house, finishing a flash-card lesson on numbers.”

CEFR level