資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Peepul tree \Pee"pul tree`\ [Hind. p[=i]pal, Skr. pippala.]
(Bot.)
A sacred tree ({Ficus religiosa}) of the Buddhists, a kind of
fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See {Bo
tree}. [Written also {pippul tree}, and {pipal tree}.]
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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Ficus religiosa
n : fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks
the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by
Buddhists [syn: {pipal}, {pipal tree}, {pipul}, {peepul},
{sacred fig}, {bo tree}]