单词 | banian tree |
释义 | banian tree (once / 159721 pages) n WORD FAMILY banian tree: banian trees USAGE EXAMPLESIn a glade in the gloomy depths of an African forest my mother is sleeping, in the shade of a banian tree. Stables, Gordon, O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas(2011) Arrived at Ajmir, the Englishman fell among tents pitched under the shadow of a huge banian tree, and in them was a Punjabi. Kipling, Rudyard, From Sea to Sea—Letters of Travel(2010) One of a shooting party had killed a female monkey in a banian tree, and carried it to his tent. Morris, Charles, Man And His Ancestor—A Study In Evo...(2010) n East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks Syn|Hyper East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis, Indian banyan, banian, banyan, banyan tree 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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