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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

... matting inclined at a slight angle toward the south, some two feet above the ground but open toward the north. What crop may have been grown here we did not learn but the matting was apparently intended for shade, as it was hot midsummer weather, and we suspect it may have been ginseng. It was here, too, that we came into the region of the culture of matting rush, extensively grown in Hiroshima and Okayama prefectures, but less extensively all over the empire. As with rice, the rush is ...

— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King

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