0 a tree that grows on wet land, with branches that have hanging roots which grow downwards and start new trunks. -- banyantræ
Some old banyan trees can form an entire wood.
The banyan tree starts out growing in one place.
Perhaps on a mild day, we would allow those people to be hung upside down by their toes in the nearest banyan tree.
In fact, even a little seed would have been blown up into a sort of banyan tree in no time.
In almost every village there is someone who sits under a banyan tree, who knows everything about everything, and who is apt to have a very considerable influence.
Such an enveloped dead tree eventually rots away so that the banyan becomes a columnar tree with a hollow central core.
Women pray for their husbands by tying threads around a banyan tree on this day.
The lateral branches grow vertically downward into the soil and acts as pillars; example: banyan.
