Banyan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
2. isim A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.

   “When doubling a point, which was covered with a heavy growth of the banian mangrove, which extended into deep water, we discovered a party of Kubu Orangs fishing from off a pack of drift that had lodged against the inward trend of the northern shore.”

3. isim Various other trees of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma, especially Ficus pertusa (Central American banyan) and Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan or Malayan banyan).
4. isim A type of loose gown worn in India.
5. isim A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.

   “It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.”

6. isim A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.
7. özel isim A locality in the Shire of Buloke, north western Victoria, Australia