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American ginseng
b. Originally: the perennial herbaceous plant Panax ginseng (family Araliaceae), native to East Asia, and having a fleshy root, palmate leaves in whorls of three, and umbels of small flowers. In later use also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of various other plants of the genus Panax, esp. (more fully American ginseng) P. quinquefolius of northeastern North America.
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1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 920 A representation of the famous Chinese Herb, called Guiseng [catchword p. 918 Gniseng; sic].
1688 tr. G. Tachard Voy. to Siam (new ed.) vi. 269 Of all the Plants of the East the Ginseng is most esteemed.
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 195 The Cotton Trees..the Nisi, or Genseg [sic]; the Numerose Balsam, and Gum-trees.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 239 The Tartars often bring us the Leaves of Gin-seng instead of Tea.
1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 155 In Tartary's barren soil, grow the medicinal jingseng, and the vegetable lamb.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 82 Ginseng... The dried roots of this plant, as commonly imported, are about the thickness of the little finger.
1818 J. Bigelow Amer. Med. Bot. II. 90 The American Ginseng is thinly scattered throughout the mountainous regions of the Northern and Middle States.
1836 J. F. Davis Chinese I. iv. 131 The wild plant ginseng, long a monopoly of the Emperor in the Manchow country, has been imported in large quantities by the American ships to Canton.
1883 Q. Rev. Jan. 176 In the north the famous ‘jinseng’ (Panax quinquefolium) is found both wild and cultivated.
1926 Amer. Midland Naturalist 10 20 Other plants observed near Utica were the Dwarf Ginseng, the American Fly Honeysuckle, [etc.].
1979 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 69 611/2 Each Asian ginseng..has quinquefoliated leaves, scarlet berries, minute white flowers like a scallion, and an aromatic root.
2015 N.Y. Mag. 24 Aug. 24/3 Wild ginseng grows mostly in the Appalachian and Ozark regions.
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