1894 Brewer’s / B / Bo-tree
A corruption of bodhi or bodhiruʹma (the tree of wisdom), under which Sakyamuni used to sit when he concocted the system called Buddhism.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.