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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree;
[syn: ginkgo, gingko, maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ginkgo \Gink"go\, n.; pl. Ginkgoes. [Chin., silver fruit.] (Bot.) A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Conifer[ae]. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree. [1913 Webster] Ginkgophytina Ginkgophyta
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

maidenhair tree \maidenhair tree\ n. A deciduous dioecious gymnospermous Chinese tree (Ginkgo biloba) having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds, also called the ginkgo; it exists almost exclusively in cultivation esp. as an ornamental street tree. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

maidenhair tree n 1: deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree [syn: ginkgo, gingko, maidenhair tree, Ginkgo biloba]