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Meanings of banian in English
Portuguese
figueira-da-índia Catalan
banià East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.
Usage of banian in English
1
Not all sunny garden flowers become banian-trees by the falling of the walls.
2
Sraddhas are performed there under the banian called the Akshaya or inexhaustible banian.
3
Arrived at the foot of that banian, he saw the remains of Rajadharman.
4
On that plot stood a large and beautiful banian with a spherical top.
5
Freed from the noose, the cat ran with speed and got upon the banian.
6
Over a few ploughed fields, and past that large banian tree, the jungle begins.
7
Gunga Govind Sing, another banian of his, and one of his own domestic servants.
8
Ganassi held back the slender trunk-roots of the banian.
9
There was a hut beside a tank, a huge banian near it, and nothing more.
10
Breadfruit, banian, mulberry, and other barks furnished the fiber.
11
My large tent was pitched beneath an immense banian-tree, close to which was the new government house.
12
She took the banian, found the bloodstains on it, and spat all over them as Thara watched.
13
Opposite the spacious mission grounds the worshippers were gathering beneath two gnarled banian-trees, giant-like in height and spread.
14
Night came on, and the strange company lay down together under the shelter of the banian and slept.
15
The rounded clumps that afford the deepest shade, are formed by the mangoe, the banian, and the cotton trees.
16
Carrying the burthen with difficulty, he reached that same banian (under which he had met the crane).
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