banyan tree

What does banyan tree mean?

banyan tree means "East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks".

What is another word for banyan tree?

Close synonyms include banyan, 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 tree a common word?

banyan tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for banyan tree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.