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Definition of Sacred fig
1. Noun. Fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists.
Generic synonyms: Fig Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacred Fig
Literary usage of Sacred fig
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"•JO Jo Praj-opi, and The worship paid by Si'ta to the rivers Ganges worship of
the and Jumna, and to the sacred fig tree, is well worthy Jumna, ..."
2. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... the sacred fig-tree, supposed to overshadow the identical spot, on the Forum.
There are not a few instances in which Livius betrays want of critical ..."
3. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias, James George Frazer (1898)
"An inscription found at Eleusis mentions the expense of making or repairing the
tiled roof over the sacred fig-tree (CIA iv. No. 225 c, p. ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... long pepper, sacred fig-tree), Ficus religiosa. A species of fig (qv) known
in Ceylon as the bo tree. It somewhat resembles the banyan, but the branches ..."
5. Winston's Cumulative ... Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookby Charles Morris by Charles Morris (1917)
"The Ceylon, venerated by the Buddhists and human body. It may be 25 feet long '
sacred fig-tree of India and by 5 to 8 long. The head has two deep men at ..."
6. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1829)
"Of all 1 Hence the place was often known by the name of the sacred fig-tree, ...
The mystic procession rested at the sacred fig-tree on its return to Athens ..."
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