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語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/
• 韻: -ɪŋkəʊ

名詞

ginkgo (plural ginkgos or ginkgoes)

1. Any trees native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
   • 2015 October 29, Dave Taft, “The Female Ginkgo Tree’s Acrid Smell of Success”, in The New York Times‎:

     Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm. […] In fact, the tree was originally thought to be extinct in the wild until two populations were located in China. Such native ginkgos remain rare, with a preference for rich, streamside habitats.

2. The seed of a ginkgo tree.
   • 2001, J. G. Thirlwell, “Heuldoch 7B”, in Flow, performed by Foetus:

     I swear the gingko's working in reverse

別の表記

• gingko

同意語

• maidenhair tree

派生語

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アナグラム

• gingko