Dictionary Definition:
vánin m. (fr. 1. vana) a tree RV
• the Soma plant ib. iii, 40, 7
• (perhaps) a cloud ib. i, 73, 8 ; 130, 4
• living in a wood', a Brāhman in the third stage of his life, a Vānaprastha Kull. on Mn. vi, 38