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Banian tree

noun
1.
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.  Synonyms: banian, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan.






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"Banian tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... other; each man with his palm upon the shoulder next him; and he with the longest nose took the lead of the file. Journeying on in this manner, they came to a valley, in which reigned a king called Tammaro. Now, in a certain inclosure toward the head of the valley, there stood an immense wild banian tree; all over moss, and many centuries old, and forming quite a wood in itself: its thousand boughs striking into the earth, and fixing there as many gigantic trunks. With Tammaro, it had long been a question, which of those many trunks was the ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville



Words linked to "Banian tree" :   fig tree



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