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Definition of Panax schinseng
1. Noun. Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers.
Group relationships: Genus Panax, Panax
Terms within: Ginseng
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Panax Schinseng
Literary usage of Panax schinseng
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Terry's Japanese Empire by Thomas Philip Terry (1914)
"Ginseng (Panax schinseng), originally a wild Manchurian product, is one of the
most valuable economic plants. Credulous Chinese ascribe almost miraculous ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciencesby Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1895)
"... Panax schinseng (Manchuria) INDIGESTION AND MALNUTRITION. Specially Indicated
in Phthisis and other Wasting Diseases. DOSE. ..."
3. A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1900)
"Hinge-like ; as applied to that species of joint which admits of flexion and
extension. GINSENG. The dried root of Panax schinseng, ..."
4. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1899)
"... Panax schinseng), a medicinal root highly esteemed in the East as a restorative,
and possessing in consequence The "table of course", which occupies the ..."
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