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Maidenhair trees
Answer for the clue "Maidenhair trees ", 8 letters:
ginkgoes
Word definitions for ginkgoes in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in 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)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of ginkgo English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ginkgo \Gink"go\, n.; pl. Ginkgoes . [Chin., silver fruit.] (Bot.) A large ornamental tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Conifer[ae] . Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called ...
Usage examples of ginkgoes.
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.
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.
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.
It was a desert city of narrow streets shaded by palms and ginkgoes, dusty squares, flat-roofed buildings of whitewashed mud-brick.