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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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"Ginseng" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fragrant earth. Spring and summer he wears always an old overcoat, and carries a basket with double covers, very much worn and brown with usage. His cane is of hickory with a crooked root for a handle, this also shiny with age. He gathers bitter-bark, tansy; ginseng, calamus, smartweed, and slippery elm, and from along old fences and barnyards, catnip and boneset, I suppose he lives somewhere, a hole in a log, or the limb of a tree, but no one knows where it is, or how he dries or cures his findings. No one knows his name: perhaps ...

— Great Possessions • David Grayson

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