ginseng : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ginseng	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ginseng
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ginseng n aromatic root of ginseng plants Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers Synonym(s): ginseng, nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax schinseng, Panax pseudoginseng
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ginseng \Gin"seng\, n. [Chinese.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Aralia}, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant ({Aralia Schinseng}) has become so rare that the American ({A. quinquefolia}) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.