ginkgoes

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ginkgoes - 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