Definitions
A tree with fan-shaped leaves, often planted as an ornamental.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“I swear the gingko's working in reverse”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fan-leaf ornamental”6 letters
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