Meaning

3 senses
  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. 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.

    (Japanese)The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.

    Daikon, chinesischer Rettich, Daikon-Rettich

    дайко́нdajkón, япо́нская ре́дькаjapónskaja rédʹka, кита́йская ре́дькаkitájskaja rédʹka

    дайко́нdajkón, япо́нська ре́дькаjapónsʹka rédʹka, кита́йська ре́дькаkytájsʹka rédʹka

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

More definitions
  • radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked

Examples

4 sentences
  1. 2. Cut the daikon into long sticks.

    de2. Schneiden Sie den Rettich in lange Streifen. — Wauzl

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  2. Daikon might be more expensive than the carrots.

  3. Cut the daikon radish and carrot into quarter slices and cut the other vegetables into bite-size pieces.

  4. I heard daikon skins can be used when cooking, but I'm worried about pesticides, so I usually throw them out.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
large white radish:
Русский
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large white radish:
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large white radish:

Origin

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

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

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