Aiding the banyan were the creatures that lived in its forest aisles, the trappersnappers, the jack-in-the-box wiltmilts, the berrywishes, the deadly dripperlips and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOTHOUSE]

They also differentiate between different kinds of trees, such as banyan, fir, mango and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times] Reference

After 10 kilometers along the narrow, winding road comes what the sign was pointing to: a huge bunut tree, a kind of banyan, with a hole (bolong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shifting Gears] Reference

The banyan is the true parasite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference

On that banyan thousands of crows roosted in the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Bharata, secretly approached the branches of that banyan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

I had counted every stem of the banyan-fig, great and small.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

The banyan tree grows here luxuriantly and is a great curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference

Judas-tree was destroyed by the parasitic growth of a banyan-shoot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

In the end the building comes down, but for what the banyan holds up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jesus of History] Reference

His choice of the banyan tree for his campaign launch was profoundly symbolic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Election, Big Stakes] Reference

And then he came to a squirrel which was chattering in a banyan tree, and he sang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference

They flew through the banyan trees in the hotel's garden all day long on India's 9/11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tina Brown's Must-Reads: An Attack And A Memoir] Reference

The cave and the banyan are among the many attractions of what is now Herr Blaschek's villa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

He had seized one of the air-roots of the banyan tree, and raised himself upon his right leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

A hundred varieties of creed have sprung up beneath this banyan-tree which I have called Hinduism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

The bamboo and rattan will rule supreme, and, like the banyan tree, will form an impenetrable jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes] Reference

With this situation compare the "Maha-vanija-jataka," No. 493, which tells how some merchants find a magic banyan-tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference

Having entered that dense forest, they cast their eyes about and saw a gigantic banyan tree with thousands of branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

My path lay by the banyan tree under which we had so often sat, but every air-root seemed changed to a writhing serpent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

The Dalai Lama's presence in Tibetan political life is much like the giant banyan tree, under whose shade little can grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [After The Dalai Lama] Reference

When the tendril masses touched the earth, they began burrowing into the ground like the roots of a gigantic banyan tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destiny Narrowly Avoided] Reference

I would fight, myself, if I had my bow and arrows, but they took them away from me: can't we hide ourselves in the banyan tree?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

As he surveyed that forest peopled with diverse kinds of creatures, the great warrior beheld a large banyan covered with crows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

We chose for our meeting-place the great banyan on the top of Malabar Hill, where I passed the happiest moments I have ever known.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

Whether a banyan or not, (Arthur pronounced it to be a species of barren fig), it was certainly a wonderful specimen of vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Yea, and even as the banyan tree sends out branches to draw dew from the rounded breast of earth, my love shall yearn towards thee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference

But the city is home to a vast wilderness filled with palm and banyan trees, purple bauhinia flowers, butterflies, monkeys and wild boar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel: An Oasis In The Urban Jungle] Reference

That ranger of the sky, that slayer of crows, alighting on one of the branches of the banyan, slew a large number of his sleeping enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

When Miyagi and his supporters gathered in the January rain under Nago City's ancient banyan tree to launch their campaign, they were under no illusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Election, Big Stakes] Reference

The water was shallow at this point, and Max wading over to the little island, presently called upon us to follow him if we wished to behold "a veritable banyan tree.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Scraps of it were still lying about the banyan-tree to help him to this conclusion, and the monkey chattered as if she could give evidence, too, if anybody would listen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference