ficus indica

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ficus indica - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Banyan \Ban"yan\ (b[a^]n"yan or b[a^]n*y[a^]n"), n. [See
     Banian.] (Bot.)
     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.
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  Bo tree \Bo" tree`\ (Bot.)
     The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at
     Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under
     which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and
     so to have become Buddha.
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           The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa
           ), which is planted close to every temple,
           and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of
           the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan
           (Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its
           branches.                                --Tennent.
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  Ficus \Fi"cus\, n. [L., a fig.]
     A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica
     ) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
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     Note: Ficus Indica is the banyan tree; F. religiosa, the
           peepul tree; F. elastica, the India-rubber tree.
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