maidenhair tree

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Etymology

A maidenhair tree leaf.

maidenhair (“a woman's pubic hair”) + tree, referring to its triangular leaf.[1]

Noun

maidenhair tree (plural maidenhair trees)

  1. (botany) Ginkgo biloba.

Hypernyms

References

  1. ^ Susannah Lydon, Living fossils: the plants holding the key to ancient and modern climate change
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