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Fan-shaped Chinese tree
Answer for the clue "Fan-shaped Chinese tree ", 6 letters:
ginkgo
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Word definitions for ginkgo in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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. ...
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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)]
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.