資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Banyan \Ban"yan\, n. [See {Banian}.] (Bot.)
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.
Bo tree \Bo" tree`\ (Bot.)
The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at
Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under
which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and
so to have become Buddha.
The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists ({Ficus
religiosa}), which is planted close to every temple,
and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of
the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan
({Ficus Indica}) by sending down no roots from its
branches. --Tennent.
Ficus \Fi"cus\, n. [L., a fig.]
A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which ({F.
Carica}) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
Note: {Ficus Indica} is the banyan tree; {F. religiosa}, the
peepul tree; {F. elastica}, the India-rubber tree.