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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

... and trod out with the solid steps of a woman bred to love the soil under her feet. The photographer sketched along the way, but he finally sat down by Little Wildcat where the water boiled over boulders, and Mrs. Harbison went farther to dig ginseng. There was a joyful hurry of birds all around. That leopard of the Indiana woods, the sycamore, repeated itself ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various

... convoyed to the depths of the island forest, where the strangely assorted pair conversed intimately on the virtues of pleurisy-root, Indian physic and columbo. Byle discoursed on the high price of ginseng, and the new method of preparing that specific for the Chinese market; recommended the prompt use of succory to cure a snake bite, and the liberal application of green stramonium leaves to heal sores on the back of a horse. He advised Blennerhassett to acquire an appetite for custard ...

— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable

... and Ohio, pack-horses long were used, and a pretty picture is drawn by Doddridge and many other local historians of the trains of these horses with their gay collars and stuffed bells, as, laden with furs, ginseng, and snakeroot, they filed down the mountain roads to the towns, and came home laden with salt, nails, tea, pewter plates, etc. At night the horses were hobbled, and the clappers of their bells were loosened; the ringing prevented ...

— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle

Words linked to "Ginseng" : herb, Panax, genus Panax, sang, Panax ginseng, herbaceous plant, root, Panax quinquefolius