"ginseng" in the noun sense
1. ginseng
aromatic root of ginseng plants
2. ginseng, nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax schinseng, Panax pseudoginseng
Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
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