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Meanings of banian tree in inglês

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East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.

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Usage of banian tree in inglês
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Over a few ploughed fields, and past that large banian tree, the jungle begins.
Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea
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A large banian tree afforded us an imaginary shelter, but we were drenched to the skin in a few seconds.
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
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Dr. Jerdon notes that he procured a nest at Saugor from a high branch of a banian tree in cantonments.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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They went a little further, and dismounted at a pleasant cool bank, shaded by a large banian tree, and close to the Ganges.
Hindoo Tales; Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes
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At some remote period a bird has dropped the seed of the banian tree (ficus Indicus) upon the decaying summit of a dagoba.
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
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Under that banian tree lay my dead comrade-poorShaw; I would have given a fortune to have had him by my side at this time.
How I Found Livingstone / Travels, adventures, and discoveres in...
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We now rode for seventeen miles through magnificent forest, containing the most stupendous banian trees that I have ever beheld.
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon
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They trudged until the dawn began to rise, bright yellow below the drooping banian trees; only Colonel Carter and the advance-guard riding.
Told in the East
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