Definition of Genus Panax

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Panax

genus Packera
genus Padda
genus Paeonia
genus Pagellus
genus Pagophila
genus Pagophilus
genus Pagrus
genus Pagurus
genus Palaemon
genus Palaquium
genus Paleacrita
genus Palinurus
genus Paliurus
genus Palometa
genus Pan
genus Panax (current term)
genus Pandanus
genus Pandion
genus Panicum
genus Panonychus
genus Panthera
genus Papaver
genus Paphiopedilum
genus Papio
genus Paprilus
genus Paracheirodon
genus Paradoxurus
genus Paralichthys
genus Paralithodes
genus Paramecium

Literary usage of Genus Panax

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"As defined by others, the genus Panax includes only 7 or 8 herbaceous species, natives of the ... As thus understood, the genus Panax includes the ginseng, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"The genus Panax Linne with about six existing species in Asia and North America has furnished a number of fossil forms based on numerous characteristic ..."

3. The Indian Forester (1886)
"The genus Panax is interesting from the fact that in many species the leaves are di- or tri-morphic. Mr. Kirk thus describes P. crassifolium in the ..."

4. A Handbook for Travellers in New Zealand: Auckland, the Hot Lake District by John Murray (Firm), F. W. Pennefather (1893)
"Its fruit is pleasant, and forms the principal food of the wood-pigeon. Grows throughout the Islands. Order—ARALIACEAE. Genus—Panax, Linn. ..."

5. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: Being Records of Travel on the by Richard Spruce, Alfred Russel Wallace (1908)
"Two species of the fine genus Panax are not uncommon. Rubiacea, 19.—I think I gathered every plant of this order I ..."

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