Definition of Ficus bengalensis

1. Noun. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Ficus Bengalensis

Fi
FiOS
Fianna Fáil
Fianna Éireann
Fibber McGee's closet
Fibonacci
Fibonacci number
Fibonacci numbers
Fibonacci sequence
Fibonacci sequences
Fick's laws of diffusion
Fick method
Fick principle
Ficoll-Hypaque technique
Ficus aurea
Ficus bengalensis (current term)
Ficus carica
Ficus carica sylvestris
Ficus deltoidea
Ficus diversifolia
Ficus elastica
Ficus religiosa
Ficus rubiginosa
Ficus sycomorus
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro Ruz
Fides
Fido
Fiedler
Fiedler's myocarditis

Literary usage of Ficus bengalensis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports on the Progress of Zoology and Botany, 1841, 1842 by Ray Society (1845)
"... Ficus bengalensis, and Maranta zebrina, in nitric acid, and neutralised the liquid with ammonia. The precipitate was heated in a platina crucible ..."

2. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter, Herbert Hope Risley, Hermann Michael Kisch (1876)
"Its branches spread lower and are more horizontal than those of Ficus bengalensis, and its stem is smaller. (193) Another tree similar to ..."

3. The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India by Robert Montgomery Martin (1838)
"... specimens of the true Indian fig from Bengal, without any account of its manner of growth, and described these under the name of Ficus bengalensis, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Botanical Society of London by Botanical Society of London (1839)
"(I have given drawings as exact as possible of the crystals found in the cellules of the following plants; ficus bengalensis, Maranta zebrina, ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Tasteby Luther Tucker by Luther Tucker (1855)
"With all my heart ; here is a botanical work, look for the word Ficus. "Ficus. Ficus religiosa — that's not it. Ficus bengalensis — nor that. ..."

6. A Tour Round My Garden by Alphonse Karr (1855)
"Ficus bengalensis— nor that. Ficus virens, ficus scabra, ficus mauritana—none of them. Ficus populifolia, ficus ulmifolia. No. ..."

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