| 单词 | banian-tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbanian-tree banian-tree n. (also banyan-tree; now often simply banyan) the Indian Fig Tree ( Ficus religiosa or indica) a remarkable East Indian tree, the branches of which drop shoots to the ground, that take root and support their parent branches; extending in this way, one tree will often cover a large expanse of ground.Banian Tree, Banians' Tree, Tree of the Banians, was originally a local appellation given by Europeans to an individual tree of this species growing near Gombroon on the Persian Gulf, under which the Banians, or Hindu traders settled in that port, had built a little pagoda; thence it was extended to others, and finally taken as the English name of the species. It is not so called in any Indian language. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > banyan tree Indian fig1382 Indian fig tree1594 banian-tree1638 war1687 peepul tree1783 burr1813 Brahminy fig tree1814 bo tree1820 bodhi tree1838 pagoda tree1876 waringin1889 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 122 A Tree (or rather twenty Trees, the boughs rooting and springing up a whole aker together)..namd by us the Bannyan Tree, from their adorning and adoring it with ribbons and streamers of varicoloured Taffata. c1650 tr. Tavernier I. 255 Near to the city of Ormus was a Bannians tree. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. i. xiv. 25 The war-tree..called the tree of banians.] 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 416 The Banian tree of India, the most stupendous effort of vegetable nature. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xii. 212 Most..send down roots from their branches like the banian. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 133 The banyan, or sacred fig of India. < as lemmas |
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