ginkgo

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any trees native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
    — 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.
    — I swear the gingko's working in reverse

词形变化

ginkgos plural ginkgoes plural gingko alternative

词汇关系

近义词
maidenhair tree
衍生词
ginkgo nut ginkgophyte ginkgo-toothed beaked whale ginkgotoxin

词源

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.
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