Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
14
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
- A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
- Various other trees of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma, especially Ficus pertusa (Central American banyan) and Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan or Malayan banyan).
- A type of loose gown worn in India.
- (India, Pakistan) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
- (British, naval slang, dated) A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.
Esimerkit
- We climb and then descend; we pass by the great banyan which, like Atlas, settling himself powerfully on his contorted haunches, seems awaiting with knee and shoulder the burden of the sky.
- We climb and then descend; we pass by the great banyan which, like Atlas, settling himself powerfully on his contorted haunches, seems awaiting with knee and shoulder the burden of the sky. – Teresa Frances & William Rose Benét, The East I Know, traduction de Paul Claudel, page 33.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | banyans |
Luokat
A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
Banyan with characteristic adventitious prop roots
Various other trees of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma, especially Ficus pertusa (Central American banyan) and Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan or Malayan banyan).
A Banyan Tree at the Naples, Florida Preserve
A type of loose gown worn in India.
Ward Nicholas Boylston in a brilliant green banyan and a cap, painted by John Singleton Copley, 1767.