\Bo" tree`\ (Bot.)
The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at
Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under
which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and
so to have become Buddha.

      The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists ({Ficus
      religiosa}), which is planted close to every temple,
      and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of
      the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan
      ({Ficus Indica}) by sending down no roots from its
      branches.                                --Tennent.