Meaning
2 sensesAny trees native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree
The seed of a ginkgo tree.
Ginkgo, Ginko, Ginkgobaum
ги́нкгоgínkgo, ги́нкгоgínkgo
Examples
4 sentencesGinkgos grow very slowly.
Ginkgos are slow-growing trees.
ruДеревья гинкго растут медленно.
Ginkgos are large trees.
Ginkgo trees are the most commonly found trees lining Seoul's streets.
Translations
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Origin
From Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏／银杏 (yínxìng, “silver apricot”). Ginkgo is the nFrom Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏／银杏 (yínxìng, “silver apricot”). Ginkgo is the name that is printed in Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum Fasciculi V … (1712) authored by Engelbert Kaempfer, the first Westerner to see the species. In his way of transcription ginkyo would have been Ginkjo or Ginkio but was printed as Ginkgo. This was read by Carl Linnaeus, and the misspelling stuck.
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Forms
plural: ginkgos / ginkgoesSynonyms
3 synonyms- deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree:gingkomaidenhair treeGinkgo biloba