banian

[ ban-yuhn ]

noun

1. a variant of banyan.

banian

/ ˈbænjən /

noun

1. a variant spelling of banyan

Example Sentences

In a glade in the gloomy depths of an African forest my mother is sleeping, in the shade of a banian tree.

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A short distance from the shore, some immense banian trees grew so high that the pigeons and parrots which swarmed in their branches for the fruit were often completely beyond reach of the gun.

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Arrived at Ajmir, the Englishman fell among tents pitched under the shadow of a huge banian tree, and in them was a Punjabi.

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In a Ceylon jungle, the banian and the palm, the bread-fruit, banana, satinwood, calamander, mango, and bamboo, tamarind, and ebony, mingle familiarly together.

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The trees were mostly banians, peepuls and mangoes, and there were many large fields of rice and corn.

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