Crossword clues for ginseng
ginseng
- Plant with a medicinal root
- Tea of fabled powers
- Root used in some energy drinks
- Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
- Herb used as a medicine in China
- Chinese herb (with medicinal powers?)
- Medicinal tuber
- Medicinal aromatic root
- Nag about nines when one over the eight, stimulating stuff
- Plant tuber credited with tonic properties
- Tonic root
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Chinese jen-shen. First element means "man," but the meaning of the second is obscure.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several plants, of the genus ''Panax'', having forked roots supposed to have medicinal properties. 2 The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.
WordNet
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 [syn: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax schinseng, Panax pseudoginseng]
Wikipedia
Ginseng is any one of the 11 species of slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots, belonging to the genus Panax of the family Araliaceae.
Ginseng is found in North America and in eastern Asia (mostly northeast China, Korea, Bhutan, eastern Siberia), typically in cooler climates. Panax vietnamensis, discovered in Vietnam, is the southernmost ginseng known. This article focuses on the species of the series Panax, which are the species claimed to be adaptogens, principally Panax ginseng and P. quinquefolius. Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides and gintonin.
Siberian ginseng ( Eleutherococcus senticosus) is in the same family, but not genus, as true ginseng. Like ginseng, it is considered to be an adaptogenic herb. The active compounds in Siberian ginseng are eleutherosides, not ginsenosides. Instead of a fleshy root, Siberian ginseng has a woody root.
Over centuries, ginseng has been considered in China as an important component of Chinese traditional medicine.
Usage examples of "ginseng".
Now the bonzes checked every reference to ginseng, which meant almost every page because at one time or another the plant had been prescribed for almost every ailment known to man, but nowhere was there a reference to a Great Root of Power.
The abbot took me into his study for instruction, and what I learned about ginseng was so interesting that I was almost able to forget the children for an hour.
Strangest of all is the viewpoint of the professional ginseng hunter, because for him it is not a plant but a religion.
It is then able to take on human form, but it never becomes truly human because ginseng does not know the meaning of selfishness.
Long ago, evil men discovered that a ginseng child can be captured by tying it with a red ribbon, and that is why the plant is now so hard to find, the hunters say.
It has been forced to run away from evil men, and it is for that reason that ginseng hunting has become one of the most hazardous occupations upon the face of the earth.
The ginseng hunter must display the purity of his intentions right from the start, so he carries no weapons.
A weatherworn, clawed, half-starved ginseng hunter will occasionally have the good fortune to make his way through dense underbrush and come upon a small plant with four branches that have violet flowers and a fifth branch in the center that rises higher than the others and is crowned with red berries.
If the ginseng plant does not trust him, and wishes to change into a beautiful woman or a plump brown child and run away, the hunter does not want to see where it has gone.
He takes the seeds and carefully replants them so that the ginseng can grow again.
I very much doubt that the root was ginseng, because I have never heard of ginseng that resembled it.
It was a ginseng folk or fairy tale, and it was one of the oldest known to man.
Ho doubts that his root was ginseng, and we must pray that this will do the job.
The water began to turn orange, and the ginseng root took on a copperish-orange color that was almost translucent, like amber.
Three times the treatment was repeated, and there was just enough of the ginseng essence to go around.