banian : Idioms & Phrases
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Banian days
(Naut.) , days in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use seems to be borrowed from the Banians or Banya race, who eat no flesh.
Webster 1913
banian tree
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noun East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
banyan; East Indian fig tree; Indian banyan; banyan tree; banian; Ficus bengalensis.