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Definition of Gingko
1. Noun. Deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree.
Definition of Gingko
1. Noun. The ''Ginkgo biloba'' is a tree native to East Asia having fan-shaped leaves and edible, fleshy yellow seeds. The gingko (or ginkgo) is a unique species of tree with no close living relatives. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gingko
1. ginkgo [n -KOS or -KOES] - See also: ginkgo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gingko
Literary usage of Gingko
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"gingko. Fruit cut. hard and capable of receiving a high polish, was much valued
in cabinet-work [and for making bows]; the fleshy cup of its fruit contains ..."
2. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"In gingko and cycas these spermatozoids were first discovered by Ikeno and Hirase
in Japan, ... The pine tree, then, as well as the gingko, cycas, yew, ..."
3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1850)
"The gingko-TBEE on Boston Common ( US À.} In a small volume lately published in
the United States, entitled ' The Boston Book,' " being a specimen of ..."
4. The Craftsmanby Gustav Stickley by Gustav Stickley (1904)
"... 148 Georgian Times, From—buffet, 193; table, '93, '951 chairs, 194; high-boy,
195 gingko Tree, A Study of the, 407 Home, A Carefully Planned—exterior, ..."
5. Science from an Easy Chair: A Second Series by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"... shrubs, and herbs (with the rare exception among living plants of the gingko
tree and the Cycads), cease to produce aquatic motile sperms. ..."
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