banyan

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noun

Plural noun:

banyansbanianbannian

1.
An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
2.
A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
Đồng nghĩa: banyan tree
3.
Various other trees of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma, especially Ficus pertusa (Central American banyan) and Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan or Malayan banyan).
4.
A type of loose gown worn in India.
5.
(India, Pakistan)A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
6.
(British, dated, slang)(British, naval slang, dated) A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.

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banyan tree

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From Portuguese baniano, from Arabic بَنِيَان, from વાણિયો (merchant), from Sanskrit वाणिज, from earlier वणिज् (merchant, trader). The name appears to have been first bestowed popularly on a famous tree of this species growing near Bandar Abbas, under which the Bannians, or Hindu traders settled at that port, had built a little pagoda. bunnia.