bo tree Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
pipul; peepul; pipal tree; sacred fig; pipal; Ficus religiosa.
WordNet
Bo" tree`
Definitions
(Bot.) The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (
Ficus religiosa ), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan (Ficus Indica ) by sending down no roots from its branches. Tennent.