ginseng

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

Borrowed from Hokkien 人參 /人参 (jîn-sim, “ginseng”). Doublet of ninzin.

Manchuria is a grazing and wheat-growing country, exporting food stuffs and ginseng into China. — Commercial Geography: A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
The commodities sought for the Chinese market were furs and ginseng, a plant used as a drug by the celestials. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Ginseng was her money crop, and every spring she would daily go into the mountain forests and come back with enough of its roots to help them out in the winter's pinch. — The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills, John Trotwood Moore

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