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

     I swear the gingko's working in reverse

• gingko

• maidenhair tree

• ginkgo nut
• ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens)

• gingko

• IPA^(key): /ɡiŋ.ko/

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ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

1. ginkgo

• “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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014