Daikon

//ˈdaɪkɒn// noun

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.

Etymology

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

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