Ginkgo

ginkgo gingko Translingual Etymology From mul ja 銀杏 ginkyō, from zh 銀杏 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. Proper noun 1 f genus family Ginkgoaceae gymnosperm trees with fan-shaped leaves, the sole known surviving genus of order Ginkgophyta with only one accepted surviving species, Ginkgo biloba Synonyms en maidenhair tree Hypernyms genus ; Spermatophytina subphylum - subphylum; Gymnospermae - superclass; Ginkgoopsida class - class; Ginkgoales order - order; Ginkgoaceae family - family Hyponyms genus Ginkgo biloba species - sole known extant species †Ginkgo adiantoides species, †Ginkgo apodes species, †Ginkgo digitata species, †Ginkgo dissecta species, †Ginkgo gardneri species, †Ginkgo ginkgoidea species, †Ginkgo huolinhensis species, †Ginkgo huttonii species, †Ginkgo yimaensis species - extinct species References 1 1 1 GINKG 40014409 183264 108391 3310 genus 4960 55067 gi Ginkgoaceae German Alternative forms de Ginko Pronunciation de /ˈɡɪŋko/ de De-Ginkgo.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun m,,s ginkgo (tree) Declension m,,s Further reading