bushrope

English

Etymology

From bush +‎ rope.

Noun

bushrope (plural bushropes)

1. Synonym of liana
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1906, Game Laws in Brief and Woodcraft Magazine, page 111:

     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.

   • 1977, Merrill F. Unger, What Demons Can Do to Saints, Moody Publishers, published 1991:

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