Ginkgo

From Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏 / 银杏 (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.

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.

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

• (genus): Ginkgo biloba - sole known extant species
  • †Ginkgo adiantoides, †Ginkgo apodes, †Ginkgo digitata, †Ginkgo dissecta, †Ginkgo gardneri, †Ginkgo ginkgoidea, †Ginkgo huolinhensis, †Ginkgo huttonii, †Ginkgo yimaensis - extinct species

• 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.
• Ginkgo at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Ginkgo at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Ginkgo at The Plant List
• Ginkgo at Paleobiology Database
• Ginkgoaceae at Gymnosperms Database

• Ginko

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪŋko/

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Ginkgo m (strong, genitive Ginkgos, plural Ginkgos)

1. ginkgo (tree)

• “Ginkgo” in Duden online