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  • noun Plural form of gingko.

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Examples

  • Cutting it down would be considered sacrilege in the average city park or shade garden—I'm not a big fan of gingkoes, but this was one of the more attractive specimens I've seen—but Erica Packard, the executive director of the Bronx and Manhattan Land Trusts, the community garden's new owner, didn't seem adverse to the idea.

    A Sunny Plot to Feel Good Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • Cutting it down would be considered sacrilege in the average city park or shade garden—I'm not a big fan of gingkoes, but this was one of the more attractive specimens I've seen—but Erica Packard, the executive director of the Bronx and Manhattan Land Trusts, the community garden's new owner, didn't seem adverse to the idea.

    A Sunny Plot to Feel Good Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • Around the edges of the room, behind the forest of illusory ferns and gingkoes and cycads, other extinct species lurked, here a hyaenodon with its vicious teeth; there a massetognathus like a big, skinny rat; watching it carefully, a dog-like direwolf; all part of an anachronistic conglomeration, a fantastical celebration of the weird and wild things the need to survive had come up with over the eons.

    THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE by Ruth Nestvold | Fiction | Futurismic 2006

  • The fallen fir was among hundreds of elms, gingkoes, chestnuts, and other trees throughout

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • The temple is also famed for its surrounding forests of bamboo, gingkoes and wisteria.

    The Buddhist Channel 2010

  • Bamboo pillars the size of buildings hung above, forming a ceiling over the trail and casting a green shadow over the floor's unstable mulch of wood splinters - as if the bamboo had suddenly shot up beneath a forest of pine trees and gingkoes, reducing them to smithereens.

    The Temple News 2009

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