Usually means: Root used for medicinal purposes.
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  1. ginseng: Merriam-Webster
  2. ginseng: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ginseng: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ginseng: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ginseng: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ginseng, ginseng: Wordnik
  7. ginseng: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ginseng: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ginseng: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ginseng: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ginseng: Dictionary.com
  12. ginseng: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Ginseng: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ginseng: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ginseng: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ginseng: Rhymezone
  17. Ginseng: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ginseng: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ginseng: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ginseng: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ginseng: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. ginseng: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. ginseng: Wiktionary

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  1. Ginseng: Health & Beauty Glossary

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  1. ginseng: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. ginseng: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Ginseng: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Ginseng: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Ginseng (American), Ginseng (Asian): Glossary of Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
  7. ginseng: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. ginseng: Medical dictionary
  9. Ginseng: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ginseng: Eastern Tea

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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  1. ginseng: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ginseng: Body Building

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beauty Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Ginseng: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal and aphrodisiac properties.
noun:  The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots.

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