Bo tree

Definition of Bo tree

Bo´ tree`
1.(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.

Related Words

Ficus religiosa, fig tree, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig
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