Meaning & use
Ginkgo
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A deciduous tree native to China with distinctive fan-shaped leaves, often planted as an ornamental and valued in traditional medicine.
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The street was lined with golden ginkgo trees in late autumn.
Ginkgo extract is sometimes taken as a supplement believed to support memory.
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Ginkgo biloba is considered a living fossil, essentially unchanged for over 200 million years, and is the only surviving species in its entire order.
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