GENUS PANAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Panax mean? 

• GENUS PANAX (noun)
  The noun GENUS PANAX has 1 sense:

1. perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng

  Familiarity information: GENUS PANAX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PANAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Panax; Panax

Hypernyms ("genus Panax" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Panax"):

ginseng; nin-sin; Panax ginseng; Panax pseudoginseng; Panax schinseng (Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers)

American ginseng; Panax quinquefolius; sang (North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng)

Holonyms ("genus Panax" is a member of...):

Araliaceae; family Araliaceae; ivy family (mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera)