banyan

• Gujarati merchants conducted business under it, and the Portuguese lent their name, banyan, to the tree. —  Thomas Crampton
• It is said that the banyan was planted in the Jin Dynasty and is famous for its age and towering beauty.
• Saplings of more than 55 indigenous species like neem, banyan, jamun and peepal would be planted during the special drives, starting with the onset of monsoon, an official said. —  India eNews
• But it would have puzzled anyone to explore this almost impenetrable forest growth without the aid of a cutlass to clear the path; for, tall vines, like ship's cordage, hung from the limbs of the trees and knitted their branches together in the most inextricable fashion, the lianas rooting themselves down into the earth and then springing up again for fresh entanglements, in the same way as the banyan-tree of India spreads itself This was the outlook from one side only of our route. —  The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
• The banyan is the Ficus indica_, or Urostigma bengalense_; the 'pоpal' is Ficus religiosa_, or Urostigma religiosum_; and the tamarind is the Tamarindus indica_, or occidentalis_, or officinalis 13. —  Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

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