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Meanings of banyan 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.
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Examples for "banian"
Examples for "banian"
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.
1
Cutter turned the tank's muzzle toward the banyan tree where Kuze was concealed.
2
And Jerry sat under the banyan tree and observed the flight of all Somo.
3
Parvata rose up from his seat under the banyan tree.
4
An enormous banyan tree stands on the lawn at Barrackpore.
5
The banyan tree has to be seen to be understood.
1
Over a few ploughed fields, and past that large banian tree, the jungle begins.
2
A large banian tree afforded us an imaginary shelter, but we were drenched to the skin in a few seconds.
3
Dr. Jerdon notes that he procured a nest at Saugor from a high branch of a banian tree in cantonments.
4
They went a little further, and dismounted at a pleasant cool bank, shaded by a large banian tree, and close to the Ganges.
5
At some remote period a bird has dropped the seed of the banian tree (ficus Indicus) upon the decaying summit of a dagoba.
1
The champion is the Indian banyan (Ficus benghalensis), a tree so big it can resemble a small forest from afar.
2
One of them we passed through I am sure would have run any Indian banyan hard for extent of ground covered, if it were measured.
1
Nyagrodha is the Ficus Bengalensis, Linn.
Usage of banyan in English
1
No banyan days with us, now, in the navy, was the answer.
2
The banyan was India's national tree, and the word itself was Gujarati.
3
Some of the non-fruit-bearing kind of banyan-trees formed the background of the landscape.
4
Soon after the intended assailants stood among the rooted branches of the banyan.
5
They also walk in procession round the banyan or sacred tree.
6
The official tree of children born on Thursday is the banyan.
7
If the bus didn't remind her of home, the banyan did.
8
The banyan-tree is the most enterprising trunk-maker I ever heard of.
9
Banana leaves brushed his back, and he nearly tripped over long banyan roots.
10
Under the banyan-tree a raised platform stood upon posts of bamboo.
11
Under an aged banyan there is shade for a large congregation.
12
Cutter turned the tank's muzzle toward the banyan tree where Kuze was concealed.
13
They made their way without urgency, turning onto the wide, banyan-lined Boulevard St. Dragonne.
14
In the end the building comes down, but for what the banyan holds up.
15
On that banyan thousands of crows roosted in the night.
16
And Jerry sat under the banyan tree and observed the flight of all Somo.
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