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noun

Banian n.

A Hindu trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. (Written also banyan)

A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.

(Bot.) The Indian fig. See Banyan.

Banian days (Naut.), days in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use seems to be borrowed from the Banians or Banya race, who eat no flesh.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Banian" Quotes from Famous Books

... quarrel with the Chota Rani! One must die sooner or later, and it is just as well to be on the bank of the holy Ganges before it is too late. It is too horrible to think of being cremated in your wretched burning-ground here, under that stumpy banian tree—that is why I have been refusing to die, and have ...

— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore

Words linked to "Banian" : jacket, banian tree, Ficus bengalensis, banyan tree, fig tree, Indian banyan, banyan, East Indian fig tree