What is "gingko"

Usage examples of "gingko".

The boxes were filled with such delicacies as broiled abalone, raw sea bream and garnishes, roasted gingko nuts, and red bean paste soup with freshly picked mushrooms.

Mnemosyne was the mother of the muses and she seems to be having her day, thanks perhaps to the wonders of gingko biloba.

The armed guards, and perhaps the sense that it was Engineers who governed what had once been the Gingko County Community College, kept them from storming the campus.

One huge gingko tree, topping all the others, shot its great limbs and maidenhair foliage over the fort which we had constructed.

My eyes chanced to light upon the enormous gnarled trunk of the gingko tree which cast its huge branches over us.

I climbed up on to a limb of the great gingko tree, but there was no secure perch on its rounded surface, and I should certainly have fallen off and broken my neck the moment I began to doze.

From the highest boughs of a gingko tree a blackbird whistled three notes.

James drove down the single lane road that curved around the cemetery and parked underneath a huge and ancient gingko tree.

While people are worrying about things like the fact that a deli is overcharging some people by five cents for gingko biloba rings, there are human beings walking around our school in abject misery because no one will even say Good morning to them, or How was your weekend?

She said that even though paying five cents more for a bag of gingko biloba rings might not seem like much to some of us, victims of real racism, like the Armenians and the Rwandans and the Ugandans and the Bosnians, would recognize that that five cents was only the first step on the road to genocide.

New Zealand contributes her share, and to China and Japan they are indebted for the camphor tree, the gingko, the loquat, and the chestnuts.

Cool air drifted into the room and Findhorn found himself looking out over the garden, where a low table had been set next to a gingko tree.

Dinosaurs dominated a land covered with cycads, ferns, gingkos and conifers.

The first delicate buds of the cut-leaf maples and gingkos were peeping like chicks from their long winter's sleep.

In the park around the small chateau, built in a Belgian version of the First Empire style, trees from many lands had been assembled by his father and grandfather: drooping spruces from Norway, dark-pillared cypresses from Italy, spreading cedars from Lebanon, trees of heaven from China, fern-leaved gingkos from Japan, lofty tulip-trees and liquidambars from America, and fantastic sylvan forms from islands of the Southern Ocean.