Usually means: Large tree with aerial roots.
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  1. banyan: Merriam-Webster
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  3. banyan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. banyan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. banyan: Wiktionary
  9. banyan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. banyan (banian): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. banyan: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. banyan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Banyan (band), Banyan (clothing), Banyan (company), Banyan (disambiguation), Banyan, The Banyan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Banyan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. banyan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. Banyan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Banyan: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. banyan: FreeDictionary.org
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
noun:  A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
noun:  Various other trees of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma, especially Ficus pertusa (Central American banyan) and Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan or Malayan banyan).
noun:  A type of loose gown worn in India.
noun:  (India, Pakistan) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
noun:  (British, naval slang, dated) A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.

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