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BANYAN, or BANIAN (an Arab corruption, borrowed by the Portuguese from the Sanskrit vanij, " merchant ") , the Ficus Indices, or Bengalensis, a tree of the fig genus. The name was originally given by Europeans to a particular tree on the Persian Gulf beneath which some Hindu " merchants " had built a pagoda. In Calcutta the word was once generally applied to a native broker or head clerk in any business or private house
grain -dealer. Early writers sometimes use the term
Banyan was long Anglo-Indian. for an undershirt, in allusion to the body
Banyan .Banyan days is a nautical slang
term
week on which meat formed no part of the men's rations. These were called banyan days,, in allusion to the vegetarian diet of the Hindu merchants. Banyan hospital
slang
hospital
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