Ginkgo

Etymology
From, from 🇨🇬 "silver apricot". The same characters as in Chinese are used in Japanese, where they appear as though they could be read ginkyō. Ginkgo is the name that is printed in Amoenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum Fasciculi V [...] (1712) authored by, the first Westerner to see the species. This was read by, and the misspelling stuck.

Hypernyms

 * ; - subphylum; Gymnospermae - superclass;  - class;  - order;  - family

Hyponyms

 * - sole known extant species
 * †, †, †, †, †, †, †, †, † - extinct species

Noun

 * 1) ginkgo (tree)