ginkgo

银杏

发音

UK /ˈɡɪŋ.kəʊ/
其它
US

词形变化

ginkgoes ginkgos 复数 ginkgos ginkgoes 复数

别名

ginkyo gingko

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any trees native to China with small, fan-shaped leaves and edible seeds.

  2. 2.

    The seed of a ginkgo tree.

    银杏

    白果

    公孙树

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

gingko maidenhair tree

相关短语

ginkgo nut ginkgo nuts

词源

From Japanese 銀杏 (ginkyō), from Chinese 銀杏／银杏 (yínxìng, “silver apricot”). Ginkgo is the name that is printed in Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum Fasciculi V … (1712) authored by Engelbert Kaempfer, the first Westerner to see the species. In his way of transcription ginkyo would have been Ginkjo or Ginkio but was printed as Ginkgo. This was read by Carl Linnaeus, and the misspelling stuck.

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