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Webster 1913 Edition

Ginkgo

Gink′go

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Ginkgoes

(#)

.

[Chin., silver fruit.]

(Bot.)

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

.