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Etymology
From Chinese �� (yínxìng) "silver apricot". The same characters are used in Japanese (ich�) and Korean (eunhang). The Japanese characters used to write ginkgo look as though they could be read ginky�, and this was the name Engelbert Kaempfer, the first Westerner to see the species in 1690, wrote down in his Amoenitates Exoticae (1712). However, his y was misread as a g, and the misspelling stuck.

Noun
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1. A Chinese tree with small fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
2. The seed of the ginkgo tree.

Translations
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Japanese: ��, �孫樹 (����, ich�)
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Russian: гинкго
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Japanese: �� (����, ginnan)
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Russian: гинкго
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See also
Ginkgo biloba - scientific name
maidenhair tree

Category:Trees

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