Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

peepul

peepul (pē"pul)

[Hind. pīpal, Sanskrit pippala.]

(Botany) A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age; it lacks the prop roots of the banyan. See Bo tree.

Also: Peepul tree