Banyan is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BANYAN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Hindi) an Indian fig tree with vast spreading branches; a Hindu trader, also BANIA, BANIAN
• an Indian fig tree, the branches of which produce wide-ranging aerial roots which later become accessory trunks.
• a loose flannel undergarment worn in India.
• 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.
• East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
• a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India
• Indian tree
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an East Indian tree

Words related to BANYAN

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Words that contain BANYAN

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How to use BANYAN in a sentence

• The banyan is almost a colony of trees in itself, having, apparently, a dozen trunks in one.
• When Oliver got back to Waikiki, he had lunch at the banyan bar and thought about what had happened.
• An hour later he was beneath the banyan tree at the Moana beach bar.
• Morgan and Edie walked down the wide back steps of the hotel and across the courtyard beneath the banyan tree.
• Did he want to go back east? It felt better to sit under the banyan tree and watch it get dark.
• And Jerry sat under the banyan tree and observed the flight of all Somo.
• Here, hiding new trail, Binu Charley had carried him for a quarter of a mile into the heart of the deepest jungle, and hidden him in a big banyan tree.
• Tudor was to stay behind in his banyan refuge and gather strength while the expedition proceeded.
• The Raja told no one, but one morning he climbed the banyan tree before the maiden appeared, and when she came, he was carried up to the sky along with the tree.
• They told him to bring the villagers with both the cows to a big banyan tree outside the village.
• Left alone there Jhalka put one of the mirrors into the box and then tightened his cloth and climbed the banyan tree with his battle axe and the other mirror.
• If any of them has a wedding or a number of visitors at his house, and has not enough plates and dishes, he goes to the banyan tree and asks the headman to lend him some.
• CHAPTER I This is the story of four creatures, none of whom loved each other, who lived in the same banyan tree in a forest in India.
• Banyan trees grow to a very great height, spreading their branches out so widely that many people can stand beneath them.
• This was a barley field a short distance from the banyan tree, where he loved to nibble the full ears, running up the stalks to get at them.
• When the hunter was quite out of sight, the cat came forth from the barley, and hastened back to her beloved home in the banyan tree.
• The dew had gone from the dead grass and the sand was hot to his dry boots before he came back into the open space about the great banyan and the tents.
• After walking through the village we sat down for a short time under the shade of a large banyan tree.
• The following is an account of the dimensions of a remarkable banyan or burr tree, near Manjee, twenty miles west of Patna in Bengal.
• At a turning around a huge banyan tree they saw the flickering flames of torches, and Barlow knew that plodding in front was a large body of pilgrims.
• Splendid banyan trees give grateful shelter to the traveller.
• At an inn, under the branches of a banyan tree, we sat down and had a cup of tea.
• Under the wide branches of a banyan tree I made my men stop, for I was very tired, and while they waited I lay down for an hour on the grass and had a refreshing sleep.
• Riding then a little way, we dismounted under a magnificent banyan tree, one of the finest specimens, I should think, in the world.
• Harris and Negoro were seated at the foot of an enormous banyan, on the steep bank of an impetuous stream, which ran between a double hedge of papyrus.
• This beautiful park contains quite a variety of trees, including the banyan, and is a resort of many of the people.
• Colonel Sykes alludes to a Banyan at the village of Nikow in Poonah with 68 stems descending from and supporting the branches.
• There is a banyan tree about five and twenty miles from Berhampore, remarkable for the height of the lower branches from the ground.
• We were hiding amid the roots of a great banyan tree, and could see well.
• It was then commonly said at Surat that it took three Jews to make a Chinaman, and three Chinamen to make a Banyan.
• Bheirs, papia, tobacco, banyan, of these last, poor specimens may be seen here.
• But the imperceptible subtle essence in each seed is the whole Banyan.
• Yea, and even as the banyan tree sends out branches to draw dew from the rounded breast of earth, my love shall yearn towards thee.

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