noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.
2. 2
   radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked wordnet
3. 3
   An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.; The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish. Japanese

   "Jiko was washing these big white daikons, and I was cutting them up and salting them and putting them into plastic freezer bags."

4. 4
   Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.

Synonyms

All synonyms

japanese radishchinese radishlo baklo pakoriental radishbeauty heart radish

Example

More examples

"2. Cut the daikon into long sticks."

Etymology

From Japanese 大根 (daikon, “big root”).

Related phrases

Sakurajima daikongiant daikonjumbo daikoneast asiafallow cropjapanese radishnorth americaraphanus raphanistrum subsp sativusraphanus sativussakurajima radishsouth asiawatermelon radish

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