Banian is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 48 anagrams from letters in banian (aabinn).
1590-1600; Portuguese (perhaps Arabic) Gujarati vāṇiyo (singular) or vāṇiyā (plural) member of the merchant caste (compare Prakrit vāṇiaya, Sanskrit vāṇija trader); the tree is said to have t
Hence, banian days, days in which sailors in the navy had no flesh meat served out to them.
banian days, days when no meat is served out to ships' crews.
After praying they went and sat under a banian tree, and all day long they had nothing to eat or drink.
banian days are now abolished, but the term is still applied to days of poor fare.
The banian hospital at Surat is a most remarkable institution.
But having the good fortune to meet a banian of Ahmedabad, whom I had formerly known, he relieved me and my men.
They reached Fiji, went on shore, and there stood the banian tree.
Breadfruit, banian, mulberry, and other barks furnished the fiber.
Was that the banian tree of which he had been warned by the old Byragee at Surroori?
The slopes on either hand are wooded, that of banian to much the greatest extent.
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