Crossword clues for ginkgo
ginkgo
- Maidenhair tree
- Chinese tree considered a living fossil
- Tree with fan-shaped leaves
- Urban planting favorite
- Deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds
- Exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree
- Large shade tree
- Ornamental tree of the Orient
- Tree with a fan-shaped leaf
- Trap game under base of oak tree
The Collaborative International Dictionary
maidenhair tree \maidenhair tree\ n. A deciduous dioecious gymnospermous Chinese tree ( Ginkgo biloba) having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds, also called the ginkgo; it exists almost exclusively in cultivation esp. as an ornamental street tree.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1773, from Japanese ginkyo, from Chinese yin-hing, from yin "silver" + hing "apricot" (Sino-Japanese kyo). Introduced to New World 1784 by William Hamilton in his garden near Philadelphia.
Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Ginkgo biloba'', a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds. 2 The seed of the ginkgo tree.
WordNet
n. deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree [syn: gingko, maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba]
[also: ginkgoes (pl)]
Wikipedia
Ginkgo is a genus of highly unusual non-flowering plants. The scientific name is also used as the English name. The order to which it belongs, Ginkgoales, first appeared in the Permian, 270 million years ago, possibly derived from " seed ferns" of the order Peltaspermales. The rate of evolution within the genus has been slow, and almost all its species had become extinct by the end of the Pliocene; the exception is the sole living species, Ginkgo biloba, which is only found in the wild in China, but is cultivated across the world. The relationships between ginkgos and other groups of plants are not fully resolved.
Usage examples of "ginkgo".
But all the recent data shows that ginkgo offers no better protection from the effects of aging than a placebo.
For real trees we had araucarias, trees of the ginkgo type, and cycads looking much like palms.
No homes visible here, just two-story walls of green eugenia and juniper and red-berried toyon backed by forests of oak, ginkgo, and liquidambar.
Ginkgo, a primitive, weird, spindly tree, here about four feet high, with a bilobed, fan-shaped leaf unlike any other.
Araucariaceae and ginkgos formed the climax forests, controlling the development of canopies where high-reaching sauropod dinosaurs may have grazed.
The trees were cycads, tall trees with rough bark that resembled palms, squat cycadeoids looking oddly like giant pineapples, and ginkgoes with their odd, fan-shaped leaves, an already ancient lineage that would survive into the human era and beyond.
Many of the land plants in the Permian Period such as conifers, sphenopsids, ferns, and seed ferns continued into the Triassic, while other gymnosperms such as cycads, cycadeoids and ginkgos appeared for the first time.
The cycads, cycadeoids, conifers, and ginkgos formed the tropical forests in many parts of the world during the Triassic Period.
And here, as nearly everywhere, honeysuckle vines grew wherever they could find bare soil, in the cracked pavement of alleys, by the roots of curbside ginkgoes and maples, in the miniparks to be found on many blocks, and then climbed toward the sun on whatever vertical surfaces were within their reach.
Zoas wandered, in twos and threes, away from the swamp, toward a distant grove of giant redwood trees, gathering samples of ferns, palmlike cycads, tasting the nuts and fruits of the ginkgos.
Lilly discovered this yesterday after play rehearsal when she went to buy ginkgo biloba puffs and Ling Su, in front of her in line, bought the same thing.
He was also taking Ginkgo Biloba, Saw Palmetto, St John's Wort Viand baby aspirin.
Even with his brain cells whizzing along on ginkgo biloba, there was no way to remember ten thousand necks.
Off in the distance he could see what appeared to be conifers, ginkgoes, and more.
An officer in gold-tinted body armor stood on a metal disc that floated in the air above the dusty crowns of the ginkgoes which lined one side of the broad, brawling avenue.