How to pronounce ginkgo
American English pronunciation
GING-koh
- IPA
- /ˈɡɪŋkoʊ/
- Syllables
- GING · koh (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What ginkgo means
A very old kind of tree with fan-shaped leaves
In a sentence: Every fall, the ginkgo on our street drops all its golden leaves in one day.
Where it comes from: It comes from a Japanese word meaning silver apricot. A writer printed it as ginkgo by mistake in 1712, and the misspelling stuck.
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