ginkgo

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ

ginkgo (plural ginkgos or ginkgoes)

1. Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
   • 2015 October 29, Dave Taft, “The Female Ginkgo Tree’s Acrid Smell of Success”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm. […] In fact, the tree was originally thought to be extinct in the wild until two populations were located in China. Such native ginkgos remain rare, with a preference for rich, streamside habitats.

2. The seed of a ginkgo tree.
   • 2001, J. G. Thirlwell, “Heuldoch 7B”, in Flow, performed by Foetus:

     I swear the gingko's working in reverse

• gingko

• maidenhair tree

• gingko

From Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏／银杏 (yínxìng, “silver apricot”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡeŋɡo]

ginkgo c (singular definite ginkgoen, plural indefinite ginkgoer)

1. ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)

   Synonyms: ginkgotræ, tempeltræ

• “ginkgo” in Den Danske Ordbog

• (dated) gingko, (dated) gingo, ginko, (dated) ginkyo

• IPA^(key): /ʒiŋ.ko/, /ɡiŋ.ko/

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ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

1. ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)

   Synonyms: arbre aux abricots d'argent, arbre aux quarante écus, ginkgo-biloba

• “ginkgo” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “ginkgo” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “ginkgo” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “ginkgo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gingko
• ginco (rare)

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

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

Borrowed from French ginkgo.

ginkgo m (plural ginkgo)

1. ginkgo

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

1. ginkgo

• “ginkgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024