Banian

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Variant of banyan.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
  • n. A type of loose gown worn in India.
  • n. A banyan (tree).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A Hindu trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
  • n. A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.
  • n. The Indian fig. See Banyan.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A Hindu trader or merchant, especially of the province of Guzerat; one engaged in commerce generally, but more particularly one of the great traders of western India, as in the seaports of Bombay, Kurrachee, etc., who carry on a large trade with the interior of Asia by means of caravans, and with Africa by vessels.
  • n. In British India, originally, a cotton shirt worn by the Hindus. Hence— Any undergarment, even of the elastic web made in England.
  • n. Any loose or easy dress worn in the house, especially one modeled on the native dress of the Hindus.
  • n. An East Indian fig-tree, Ficus Bengalensis, natural order Urticaceæ, remarkable for the area which individual trees cover through the development of roots from the branches, which descend to the ground and become trunks for the support and nourishment of the extending crown.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India
  • n. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    jacket    fig tree   
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    banyan   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    lantana    innumerous    weariless    Begonia    mouth organ    fruit-laden    peninsular    knitting-bag    ash-tree    sunlit