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Ginseng

noun

Aromatic root of ginseng plants.

Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers. Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng.

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American ginseng

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"Ginseng" Quotes from Famous Books

... door, and crowded out to see what had happened; and there they beheld the two cats and the rat all locked together, and panting for breath; so they cut the throat of the rat, which was as big as either of the cats: then they attended to the two cats; but, although they gave them ginseng[76] and other restoratives, they both got weaker and weaker, until at last they died. So the rat was thrown into the river; but the two cats were buried with all honours in a ...

— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

Words linked to "Ginseng" : sang, Panax schinseng, root, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax, herb, genus Panax, herbaceous plant, American ginseng, Panax quinquefolius, nin-sin