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Banyan tree   /bˈænjən tri/   Listen
Banyan tree

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






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"Banyan tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... the window of this room was a tank with a flight of masonry steps leading down into the water; on its west bank, along the garden wall, an immense banyan tree; to the south a fringe of cocoanut palms. Ringed round as I was near this window I would spend the whole day peering through the drawn Venetian shutters, gazing and gazing on this scene as on a picture book. From early ...
— My Reminiscences • Rabindranath Tagore

... paint this scene, it would suit the stage—the marquee on the right, pale moonlight on its ridge, and warm light and colour showing through its entrance as ladies go in to put off their cloaks; its guy ropes are fast to branches and air roots of a banyan tree; and to the left there is another graceful tree, with wandering branches, hung with many red and yellow paper lamps, the branches like copper in the light and in shadow black against the dark blue sky. In front ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch



Words linked to "Banyan tree" :   fig tree



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