WordNet
n. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks [syn: banyan, banian, banian tree, Indian banyan, East Indian fig tree, Ficus bengalensis]
Usage examples of "banyan tree".
The first men were made of wood, carved from a banyan tree so huge that it was a world in itself, standing in the universe of water and light.
The banyan tree was losing branches, dropping leaves, and shedding bark rapidly.
Then the cab was parked under a banyan tree, waiting, waiting while I climbed a sharp iron gate and loped, half crouching, up a flower-lined drive.
As he climbed the long ladder from his moored boat to the little house perched in the banyan tree, Tiamak vowed to be content with soup and a biscuit.
As silent as a cloud, the mutie turned on the branch of the banyan tree and began the long climb to the ground.
Boots softly crunching on the carpeting of leaves as he walked through the crowd of adults, a boy strode to the biggest banyan tree and briefly inspected the trunk.