The family of plants containing ginkgo trees, a living fossil from the age of dinosaurs.
From 'ginkgo' (from Japanese 'gin-kyo' meaning silver apricot) + '-aceae' (family suffix in botanical taxonomy). The -aceae suffix is standard Latin for plant family classification.
Ginkgo is basically a dinosaur that survived while all its relatives went extinct—it lived through the asteroid that killed the T-Rex and is still here today, unchanged for 200 million years!
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