"ginkgo" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ginkgo.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-ginkgo.wav Forms: ginkgos [plural], ginkgoes [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ 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. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ja|銀杏|tr=ginkyō}} Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), {{der|en|zh|-}} Chinese, {{zh-l|銀杏||silver apricot}} 銀杏/银杏 (yínxìng, “silver apricot”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|ginkgoes}} ginkgo (plural ginkgos or ginkgoes)
  1. Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds. Categories (lifeform): Gymnosperms
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  2. The seed of a ginkgo tree. Translations (seed): 白果 (baak⁶ gwo²) (Chinese Cantonese), 白果 (báiguǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), 銀杏 (Chinese Mandarin), 银杏 (yínxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), neidonhiuspuun siemen (Finnish), noix de ginkgo [feminine] (French), noix de gingko [feminine] (French), 銀杏 (ginnan) (alt: ぎんなん) (Japanese), 은행 (eunhaeng) (Korean), ги́нкго (gínkgo) [masculine] (Russian), ginko (Swahili), แปะก๊วย (bpɛ̀-gúai) (Thai) Translations (tree): 銀杏 (Chinese Mandarin), 银杏 (yínxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 白果 (báiguǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), 公孫樹 (Chinese Mandarin), 公孙树 (gōngsūnshù) (Chinese Mandarin), ginkgo [masculine] (Dutch), Japanse notenboom [masculine] (Dutch), ginko (Esperanto), neidonhiuspuu (Finnish), ginkgo [masculine] (French), gingko [masculine] (French), Ginkgo [masculine] (German), Ginko [masculine] (German), Ginkgobaum [masculine] (German), Ginkobaum [masculine] (German), Ginkjo [masculine] (German), Mädchenhaarbaum [masculine] (German), Frauenhaarbaum [masculine] (German), γκίγκο (gkígko) (Greek), nanahana (Hawaiian), gingko (Ido), 銀杏 (ichō) (alt: いちょう) (Japanese), 公孫樹 (ichō) (alt: いちょう) (Japanese), 은행나무 (eunhaengnamu) (Korean), miłorząb [masculine] (Polish), ginkgo [masculine] (Portuguese), ginkgo [masculine] (Romanian), ги́нкго (gínkgo) [masculine] (Russian), ginkgo [masculine] (Spanish), mginko (Swahili), ginkgo [common-gender] (Swedish), kinesiskt tempelträd [neuter] (Swedish), tempelträd [neuter] (Swedish), แปะก๊วย (bpɛ̀-gúai) (Thai), coeden ginco [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-ginkgo-en-noun-KKn9kaPK Disambiguation of 'seed': 27 73 Disambiguation of 'tree': 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: gingko, maidenhair tree Derived forms: ginkgo nut, ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (taxonomic: Mesoplodon ginkgodens)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "gingko"
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      "word": "maidenhair tree"
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      "sense": "tree",
      "word": "銀杏"
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      "sense": "tree",
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      "sense": "tree",
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      "code": "th",
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      "roman": "bpɛ̀-gúai",
      "sense": "tree",
      "word": "แปะก๊วย"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "tree",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "coeden ginco"
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      "code": "yue",
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      "roman": "baak⁶ gwo²",
      "sense": "seed",
      "word": "白果"
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      "word": "銀杏"
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      "code": "fi",
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    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "seed",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "noix de ginkgo"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
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      "tags": [
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      "sense": "seed",
      "word": "銀杏"
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      "sense": "seed",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "sw",
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    "Engelbert Kaempfer",
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}

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