Definitions for Ginkgo

Ginkgo gink·go

Spelling: [ging-koh, jing-]
IPA: /ˈgɪŋ koʊ, ˈdʒɪŋ-/

Ginkgo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in Ginkgo (ggikno).

Definitions for Ginkgo

noun

  1. a large shade tree, Ginkgo biloba, native to China, having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy seeds with edible kernels: the sole surviving species of the gymnosperm family Ginkgoaceae, which thrived in the Jurassic Period, and existing almost exclusively in cultivation.

Origin of Ginkgo

1765-75; Japanese ginkyō, equivalent to gin silver (Chinese) + kyō apricot (

Examples for Ginkgo

The Japanese ginkgo, or maidenhair fern tree, is an old-fashioned conifer somewhat like those first examples of this family.

An ally of theirs, the ginkgo or Maidenhair tree, seems to have been extremely common in certain geological periods.

I have included among the specimens here today nuts of the ginkgo because that tree belongs among the conifers in natural order.

Most of the ginkgo trees are males, but one may graft any number of males with bearing female scions.

He drew attention also to certain structural similarities between Cycas and ginkgo.

Leaf impressions of ginkgo are found in rocks of nearly all ages back even to the Upper Palæozoic.

This is not the place to discuss in detail the past history of ginkgo (see Palaeobotany: Mesozoic).

In the same way we thought at first that a llama was a Chinese ginkgo.

The Bigtree group (Sequoia p. 47) was a companion of the ginkgo in its flourishing period.

I was surprised, after a long hard winter, to find the ginkgo trees still alive and gaining growth.

Word Value for Ginkgo
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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