Ginkgo

See also: ginkgo and gingko

Translingual

Etymology

From Japanese 銀杏, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Chinese 銀杏 (yínxìng) "silver apricot". The same characters as in Chinese are used in Japanese, where they appear as though they could be read ginkyō. 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. This was read by Carl Linnaeus, and the misspelling stuck.

Proper noun

Ginkgo f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ginkgoaceae – gymnosperm trees with fan-shaped leaves, the sole known surviving genus of order Ginkgophyta with only one accepted surviving species Ginkgo biloba..

Synonyms

• maidenhair tree

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; Gymnospermae - superclass; Ginkgoopsida - class; Ginkgoales - order; Ginkgoaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Ginkgo biloba - sole known extant species
  • †, †, †, †, †, †, †, †, † - extinct species

References

• Ginkgo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ginkgo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ginkgo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ginkgo at USDA Plants database

Ginkgo at Tropicos

Ginkgo at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

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Ginkgo at National Center for Biotechnology Information

Ginkgo at Germplasm Resources Information Network

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Ginkgo at The Plant List

Ginkgo at Paleobiology Database

Ginkgoaceae at Gymnosperms Database

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German

Alternative forms

• Ginko

Pronunciation

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Noun

Ginkgo m (genitive Ginkgos, plural Ginkgos)

1. ginkgo (tree)

Further reading

• “Ginkgo” in Duden online