SANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sang mean? 

• SANG (noun)
  The noun SANG has 1 sense:

1. North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng

  Familiarity information: SANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American ginseng; Panax quinquefolius; sang

Hypernyms ("sang" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "sang"):

ginseng (aromatic root of ginseng plants)

Holonyms ("sang" is a member of...):

genus Panax; Panax (perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Micawber's spirits becoming elevated, too, we sang “Auld Lang Syne”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Everybody laughed and sang, climbed up and tumbled down.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

From the slope below us rose the voices of the Indians as they laughed and sang.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Drink and the devil had done for the rest,” with a vengeance, although, to be sure, we were not quite in so bad a case as that other ship they sang about.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The birds sang in more cheerful notes, and the leaves began to bud forth on the trees.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Then he flew away, and settled on the roof of a shoemaker’s house and sang.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Outside the air was sweet, the sun shone, and the birds sang, and it seemed as if all nature were tuned to a different pitch.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Adele sang the canzonette tunefully enough, and with the naivete of her age.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They read, they talked, they sang together; his musical talents were considerable; and he read with all the sensibility and spirit which Edward had unfortunately wanted.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A huge brown rock from the Genoese sang over their heads, and plunged sullenly into the slope of a wave.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)