bo tree /ˈbo-/



 Bo tree 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.

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 bo tree
      n : fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks
          the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by
          Buddhists [syn: pipal, pipal tree, pipul, peepul,
           sacred fig, Ficus religiosa]