Ginkgo

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  • noun. A deciduous, dioecious tree (Ginkgo biloba) native to China and having fan-shaped leaves used in herbal medicine. The female plants bear foul-smelling fleshy fruitlike structures containing edible seeds used in East Asian cuisine, while the male plants are often grown as ornamental street trees.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. See gingko, 1.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferæ. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.
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  • noun. Ginkgo biloba, a tree native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.
  • noun. The seed of the ginkgo tree.
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  • noun. deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree
    • Word Usage
    "And there's limited research to show that an herbal remedy called ginkgo biloba may help a little."
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    Ginkgo biloba  maidenhair tree  
    Hypernym
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    gymnospermous tree  
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    ginkgoes  maidenhair tree  
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