ginkgo

See also: Ginkgo and gingko

English

Etymology

From Japanese 銀杏, 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.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/

Noun

ginkgo (plural ginkgos or ginkgoes)

Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
The seed of the ginkgo tree.

Alternative forms

gingko (common misspelling)

Synonyms

maidenhair tree

Translations

tree

Chinese:
Mandarin: 銀杏 (zh), 银杏 (zh) (yínxìng)
Esperanto: ginko
Finnish: neidonhiuspuu (fi)
French: ginkgo (fr) m, gingko (fr) m
German: Ginkgo (de) m, Ginko m, Ginkgobaum (de) m, Ginkobaum m, Ginkjo m, Mädchenhaarbaum m, Frauenhaarbaum m
Hawaiian: nanahana
Ido: gingko (io)
Japanese: 銀杏 (ja) (いちょう, ichō), 公孫樹 (ja) (いちょう, ichō)

Korean: 은행나무 (ko) (eunhaengnamu)
Portuguese: ginkgo m
Romanian: ginkgo (ro) m
Russian: ги́нкго m (gínkgo)
Spanish: ginkgo m
Swahili: mginko
Thai: แปะก๊วย (bpɛ̀-gúai)
Welsh: coeden ginco f

seed

Finnish: neidonhiuspuun siemen
French: noix de ginkgo (fr) f, noix de gingko f
Japanese: 銀杏 (ja) (ぎんなん, ginnan)
Korean: 은행 (ko) (eunhaeng)

Russian: ги́нкго m (gínkgo)
Swahili: ginko
Thai: แปะก๊วย (bpɛ̀-gúai)

Anagrams

gingko

Portuguese

Alternative forms

gingko
ginco (rare)

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba, a tree of China)

Spanish

Noun

ginkgo m (plural ginkgos)

ginkgo

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