ginkgo
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Etymology edit
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.
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Noun edit
ginkgo (plural ginkgos or ginkgoes)
- Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
- The seed of a ginkgo tree.
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tree
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seed
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References edit
- ^ Wolfgang Michel, On Engelbert Kaempfer’s “Ginkgo”, 2011
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French edit
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ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)
Further reading edit
- “ginkgo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)
- ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba, a tree of China)
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ginkgo m (plural ginkgo)
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ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)
Further reading edit
- “ginkgo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014