Definition of panax Panax
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What does panax mean?
WordNet
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| panax - perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng | ||
| genus Panax | ||
| rosid dicot genus a genus of dicotyledonous plants | ||
| araliaceae, family araliaceae, ivy family mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera | ||
| nin-sin, panax ginseng, panax pseudoginseng, panax schinseng, ginseng Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | ||
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Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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pa-naks′, n. a genus of shrubs with radiately or pinnately compound leaves and small flowers in compound umbels, the ginseng. [Gr., 'all healing.']
