ginkgo

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See also: Ginkgo and gingko

English[edit]

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Gingko tree
Gingko tree

Etymology[edit]

From 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.[1] This was read by Carl Linnaeus, and the misspelling stuck.

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ

Noun[edit]

ginkgo (plural ginkgos or ginkgoes)

  1. Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
  2. The seed of a ginkgo tree.

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French[edit]

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Noun[edit]

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

  1. ginkgo

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Portuguese[edit]

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Noun[edit]

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

  1. ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba, a tree of China)

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French ginkgo.

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ginkgo m (plural ginkgo)

  1. ginkgo

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Spanish[edit]

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ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

  1. ginkgo

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