genus panax

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

   SynonymsPanax

   Broaderrosid dicot genus

   Part ofAraliaceae

Questions about genus panax

What does genus panax mean?

genus panax means "perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng".

What is another word for genus panax?

Close synonyms include Panax. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus panax a common word?

genus panax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.