Ginkgo
TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 銀杏, from Chinese 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 nounEdit
Ginkgo f
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
HypernymsEdit
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; Gymnospermae - superclass; Ginkgoopsida - class; Ginkgoales - order; Ginkgoaceae - family
HyponymsEdit
- (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
ReferencesEdit
Ginkgo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Ginkgo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Ginkgo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Ginkgo at USDA Plants database
- Ginkgo at Tropicos
- Ginkgo on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Ginkgo at Encyclopedia of Life
- Ginkgo at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Ginkgo at Germplasm Resources Information Network
- Ginkgo at The Plant List
- Ginkgo at Fossilworks
- Ginkgoaceae at Gymnosperms Database
GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
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NounEdit
Ginkgo m (genitive Ginkgos, plural Ginkgos)
- ginkgo (tree)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of Ginkgo
Further readingEdit
- “Ginkgo” in Duden online