Definition of Ginkgo family

1. Noun. Constituting the order Ginkgoales; includes the genus Ginkgo and extinct forms.

Exact synonyms: Family Ginkgoaceae, Ginkgoaceae
Generic synonyms: Gymnosperm Family
Group relationships: Ginkgoales, Order Ginkgoales
Member holonyms: Genus Ginkgo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ginkgo Family

gingles
ginglyform
ginglymi
ginglymoarthrodial
ginglymodi
ginglymoid
ginglymoid joint
ginglymoidal
ginglymus
gings
ginhouse
ginhouses
giniite
gink
ginkgo
ginkgo family (current term)
ginkgoes
ginkgolide
ginkgolides
ginkgophyte
ginkgophytes
ginkgos
ginks
ginlike
ginmill
ginn
ginned
ginnee
ginnees
ginnel

Literary usage of Ginkgo family

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Romance of Our Trees by Ernest Henry Wilson (1920)
"The fossil evidence is insufficient to prove the existence of members of the ginkgo family in the age of the coal measures (Carboniferous period), ..."

2. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"ginkgo family. A very ancient tree family, consisting of only the following genus of a single species, scarcely known except as cultivated. GINKGO. ..."

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