maidenhair tree
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
A maidenhair tree leaf.
maidenhair (“a woman's pubic hair”) + tree, referring to its triangular leaf.[1]
Noun
maidenhair tree (plural maidenhair trees)
- (botany) Ginkgo biloba.
Hypernyms
- tree
References
- Susannah Lydon, Living fossils: the plants holding the key to ancient and modern climate change
