banyan

Other forms of banyan

plural

banyans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about banyan

What does banyan mean?

banyan means "East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in banyan?

banyan has 2 syllables: ban-yan. The stress falls on "ban". In IPA it is /ˈbænjən/.

What is another word for banyan?

Close synonyms include banyan tree, banian, banian tree, Indian banyan, East Indian fig tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is banyan a common word?

banyan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.