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COMMON IDEA OF A FIG TREE
Banyan tree; Banyan trees; Urostigma; Banyan Fig; Banyan Tree; Ficus subg. Urostigma; Banyan fig; Banian (tree); Banyans
  • Looking upward inside a strangler fig where the host tree has rotted away, leaving a hollow, columnar fig tree

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['ban??n, -nj?n]
(also banian)
¦ noun
1. (also banyan tree) an Indian fig tree, whose branches produce wide-ranging aerial roots which later become accessory trunks. [Ficus benghalensis.]
2. a loose flannel undergarment worn in India.
Origin
C16: from Port., from Gujarati va?iyo 'man of the trading caste', from Sanskrit (orig. applied by Europeans to a tree under which traders had built a pagoda).
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·noun A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

Wikipedia

Banyan

A banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adventitious prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit that begin life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice. "Banyan" often specifically denotes Ficus benghalensis (the "Indian banyan"), which is the national tree of India, though the name has also been generalized to denominate all figs that share a common life cycle and used systematically in taxonomy to denominate the subgenus Urostigma.

Pronunciation examples for Banyan
1. under this gigantic beringin banyan tree,
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2. I'm also the national football player for South Africa, Banyana Banyana.
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3. or banyan leaves pressed into the shape of bolts.
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4. In the United States, you may be familiar with Banyan news,
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5. are deer running around, there are these magnificent banyan trees everywhere. And it looks like
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Examples of use of Banyan
1. B&B rates start from 10'pp per night for the Banyan Tree Bangkok, 214 for the Banyan Tree Ringha and 226 f or the Banyan Tree Lijiang.
2. I really like the standards of the Banyan Tree chain.
3. Essentials Mark Townsend travelled to China with Abercrombie & Kent (0845 070 0615; www.abercrombiekent.co.uk). A six–night Spirit of the Yunnan package starts from 3,2''pp and includes British Airways flights to Bangkok, guided tours, transfers and full–board accommodation in the Banyan Tree Bangkok, Banyan Tree Lijiang and Banyan Tree Ringha.
4. Banyan trees are sacred to Buddhists, who believe that Buddha attained enlightenment while sitting under one.
5. Banyan, whose core temperature rose to 107.' degrees, later died in a hospital.