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Webster 1913 Edition
Bo tree
Bo′ treeˊ
.(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.