Definitions for bo treeboʊ
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
bo′ tree`boʊ(n.)
pipal.
Category: Plants, Eastern Religions
Origin of bo tree:
1860–65; partial trans. of Sinhalese bogaha
Princeton's WordNet
pipal, pipal tree, pipul, peepul, sacred fig, bo tree, Ficus religiosa(noun)
fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
Wiktionary
bo tree(Noun)
A fig tree regarded as sacred by Hindus and Buddhists.
Webster Dictionary
Bo tree(u)
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
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