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ginkgoes

  • plural
    of ginkgo.
    ginkgo
    noun
    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.

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They reproduce via seeds, as do the evolutionarily older gymnosperms, which include pine trees, ginkgoes, and others.

From Science Magazine ● May 26, 2021

There were familiar campus ginkgoes, cedars in Brooklyn, polypore mushrooms climbing a tree in Utah.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2020

“But ginkgoes form the scar across all their stems at once,” the Atlantic wrote.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2019

Around us, paulownia and ginkgoes swayed in the wind.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

The cyeads and ginkgoes have shrunk into thin survivors of the luxuriant Mesozoic groves.

From The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe

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