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Spell Bee Word: Banyan


What does banyan mean?

Word: Banyan

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Banyan means a huge tree that grows in India. Its branches send down roots that grow into the ground and look like extra trunks.

How do you spell banyan?

Syllables: ban - yan

Tricky part: Children often get the second vowel wrong, because the end is said quickly. Both parts of the word have the same vowel, a.

Watch out for: banyaan, benyan

Memory tip: The two beats of banyan rhyme, so they share the same vowel: a and a.

Banyan in a sentence

Example 1: We tied a swing to the old banyan tree.

Example 2: Monkeys swung from the roots of the banyan.

Example 3: The village elders meet under a banyan tree.

Fun Fact

The Great Banyan in the botanical garden near Kolkata spreads so wide that it looks like a small forest, yet it is one single tree.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) mango
b) peacock
c) lotus
d) bannyan

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d) bannyan. Banyan has a single n in its first part.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nnabya

a) bynaan
b) banayn
c) banyan
d) bnayan

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c) banyan. The two beats rhyme, so set out the first beat and the second follows the same pattern.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

ban_an

a) u
b) w
c) y
d) j

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c) y. The second part of banyan begins with y.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which sentence uses banyan correctly?

a) I wrote my name with a banyan.
b) Birds nested high in the old banyan.
c) Mumma fried a banyan for dinner.
d) The banyan barked at the postman.

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b) Birds nested high in the old banyan.

2. On a hot afternoon, people rest under a banyan to stay in its ____.

a) sunshine
b) rain
c) shade
d) wind

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c) shade

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