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BANYAN
A wood of the samegenus as the general fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose divisions send shoots to the ground, which takeroot and becomeadditional trunks, before it may be the wood covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
See: Banian.
Source: Websters Vocabulary