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noun aromatic root of ginseng plants
noun Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
originBorrowed from Hokkien 人參 /人参 (jîn-sim, “ginseng”). Doublet of ninzin.
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