ginseng

IPA: dʒˈɪnsɛŋ

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

Examples of "ginseng" in Sentences

Today, there are three different herbs that fall under the label ginseng.
This beverage's label doesn't say how much taurine and ginseng is in the bottle.
The ginseng is a real El Dorado of treasure to the Dukhobors, and it ought to be celebrated in poetry.
The strongest thing any medical work will say for ginseng is that it is "a very mild and soothing drug."
He is complaining that if the Dukhobors buy tea or sugar the grocer weighs the paper with it, but will not do so when he buys ginseng from the Dukhobor.
The Lady Om and I searched two seasons and found a single root of the wild mountain ginseng, which is esteemed so rare and precious a thing by the doctors that the Lady Om and I could have lived a year in comfort from the sale of our one root.