单词 | sacred fig |
释义 | sacred fig (once / 984943 pages) n WORD FAMILY sacred fig USAGE EXAMPLESWe passed very many sites of old villages, which are easily known by the tree euphorbia planted round an umbelliferous one, and the sacred fig. Waller, Horace, The Last Journals of David Livingst...(2010) Its scientific name is the Ficus religiosa; for it is the sacred fig of India, and it is called the bo-tree in Ceylon. Optic, Oliver, Across India—Or, Live Boys in the F...(2010) n fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists Syn|Hyper Ficus religiosa, bo tree, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, pipul fig tree any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature |
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