bonsai
/ˈbɒnsaɪ/noun
उच्चारण बॉन्साइ
बोन्साई, बौना पेड़
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a very small tree that is grown in a pot and prevented from growing to its normal size; the Japanese art of growing trees in this way
बोन्साई, बौना पेड़
- a bonsai banyan tree
- He trims his bonsai with small scissors every Sunday morning.
- The bonsai on the balcony is more than ten years old.
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- Growing a bonsai requires patience and careful pruning.
- She gave her father a small bonsai for his birthday.
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bon·sai
From Japanese, 'planted in a container' (not 'bonzai'); plural bonsai.
Japanese से, 'पात्र में लगाया गया' ('bonzai' गलत है); plural bonsai।
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Keep apart bonsai (a dwarf tree) and banzai (a Japanese cheer meaning 'ten thousand years').
Bonsai (बौना पेड़) और banzai ('दस हज़ार वर्ष' अर्थ वाला जापानी जयकारा) को अलग रखिए।
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General knowledge
Other Japanese art forms are ikebana (flower arrangement), origami (paper folding) and haiku (a three-line poem of 5, 7 and 5 syllables).
अन्य जापानी कलाएँ ikebana (फूल सज्जा), origami (कागज़ मोड़ना) और haiku (5, 7 और 5 syllables की तीन पंक्तियों वाली कविता) हैं।