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Bo tree
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Bo tree has 1 sense
- bo tree(n = noun.plant) ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig - fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists; Array is a kind of fig tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
Bo tree,
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. [1913 Webster]
"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."
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