ginkgo

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See also: Ginkgo and gingko

English

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Gingko tree
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.

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Noun

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:
      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

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References

  1. ^ Wolfgang Michel, On Engelbert Kaempfer’s “Ginkgo”, 2011

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Danish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

ginkgo c (singular definite ginkgoen, plural indefinite ginkgoer)

  1. ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
    Synonyms: ginkgotræ, tempeltræ

Declension

Declension of ginkgo
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ginkgo ginkgoen ginkgoer ginkgoerne
genitive ginkgos ginkgoens ginkgoers ginkgoernes

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French

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Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

  1. ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
    Synonyms: arbre aux abricots d'argent, arbre aux quarante écus, ginkgo-biloba

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Portuguese

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Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ginkgo.

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgo)

  1. ginkgo

Declension

Declension of ginkgo
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative ginkgo ginkgoul ginkgo ginkgoi
genitive-dative ginkgo ginkgoului ginkgo ginkgolor
vocative ginkgoule ginkgolor

Spanish

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

  1. ginkgo

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