Bān'yan or Ban-yān', n.

noun

n. (Bot.) A tree of the same genus with the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches drop shoots to the ground, which take root and form new stocks, till they cover a space of many hundred feet in circumference. See BANIAN.

An illustration of a large banyan tree with aerial roots hanging from its branches. — Banyan Tree.