ginkgo

See also: Ginkgo and gingko

English

Gingko tree

Etymology

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. This was read by Carl Linnaeus, and the misspelling stuck.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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 the ginkgo tree.

Alternative forms

• gingko

Synonyms

• maidenhair tree

Translations

tree

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀杏／银杏 (zh) (yínxìng), 银杏 (zh) (yínxìng), 白果 (zh) (báiguǒ), 公孫樹／公孙树 (zh) (gōngsūnshù), 公孙树 (zh) (gōngsūnshù)

• Esperanto: ginko
• Finnish: neidonhiuspuu (fi)
• French: ginkgo (fr) m, gingko (fr) m
• German: Ginkgo (de) m, Ginko m, Ginkgobaum (de) m, Ginkobaum m, Ginkjo m, Mädchenhaarbaum m, Frauenhaarbaum m
• Hawaiian: nanahana
• Ido: gingko (io)
• Japanese: 銀杏 (ja) (いちょう, ichō), 公孫樹 (ja) (いちょう, ichō)
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• Korean: 은행나무 (ko) (eunhaengnamu)
• Polish: miłorząb (pl) m
• Portuguese: ginkgo m
• Romanian: ginkgo (ro) m
• Russian: ги́нкго (ru) m (gínkgo)
• Spanish: ginkgo m
• Swahili: mginko
• Swedish: ginkgo (sv) c, kinesiskt tempelträd n, tempelträd (sv) n
• Thai: แปะก๊วย (bpɛ̀-gúai)
• Welsh: coeden ginco f

seed

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 白果 (yue) (baak⁶ gwo²)

  Mandarin: 白果 (zh) (báiguǒ), 銀杏／银杏 (zh) (yínxìng), 银杏 (zh) (yínxìng)

• Finnish: neidonhiuspuun siemen
• French: noix de ginkgo (fr) f, noix de gingko f
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• Japanese: 銀杏 (ja) (ぎんなん, ginnan)
• Korean: 은행 (ko) (eunhaeng)
• Russian: ги́нкго (ru) m (gínkgo)
• Swahili: ginko
• Thai: แปะก๊วย (bpɛ̀-gúai)

Anagrams

• gingko

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• gingko
• ginco (rare)

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

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

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Spanish

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

1. ginkgo