Ginkgo

See also: ginkgo and gingko

Translingual

Etymology

From Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏 / 银杏 (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

Ginkgo f

1. 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.

Synonyms

• maidenhair tree

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; Gymnospermae - superclass; Ginkgoopsida - class; Ginkgoales - order; Ginkgoaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (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

References

• Ginkgo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ginkgo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Ginkgo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ginkgo at USDA Plants database
• Ginkgo at Tropicos
• Ginkgo at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Ginkgo at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Ginkgo at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Ginkgo at The Plant List
• “Ginkgo”, in Paleobiology Database, 2025
• Ginkgoaceae at Gymnosperms Database

German

Alternative forms

• Ginko

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪŋko/

• Audio:

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Noun

Ginkgo m (strong, genitive Ginkgos, plural Ginkgos)

1. ginkgo (tree)

Declension

Declension of Ginkgo [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Ginkgo	die	Ginkgos
genitive	eines	des	Ginkgos	der	Ginkgos
dative	einem	dem	Ginkgo	den	Ginkgos
accusative	einen	den	Ginkgo	die	Ginkgos

Further reading

• “Ginkgo” in Duden online