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Definition of Ginkgos
1. ginkgo [n] - See also: ginkgo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ginkgos
Literary usage of Ginkgos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"The Cordaites were most closely related to the ginkgos. ... The ginkgos differ
from the Cordaites at once in the much smaller and lobate leaves, ..."
2. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph Le Conte (1903)
"It is about the size of a large plum, with a nut-like seed as large as a pecan-nut.
It is therefore in the Cycads, the ginkgos, and the yew Fio. 473. ..."
3. Nature and Science on the Pacific Coast: A Guide-book for Scientific by Pacific Coast Committee (1915)
"In this group are many ferns, cycads, and the strange ginkgos now almost extinct.
... ginkgos are not known, but are found in a later flora. ..."
4. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1896)
"Mr. Jardine, a Frenchman, an importer of trees and shrubs, sold to the British
Legation two ginkgos to plant one each side of the porte cor fié re. ..."
5. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1899)
"Mr. Jardine, a Frenchman, an importer of trees, and shrubs, sold to the British
Legation two ginkgos to plant one each side of the portu ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... ginkgos and gnetales had been described, but beyond correlating some of them
with Cordaites little was known of the plant which bore the majority. ..."
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