daikon
nounEtymology
From Japanese 大根 (daikon, “big root”).
Definitions
An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp.…
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.
Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red…
Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.
The neighborhood
- synonymChinese radish
- synonymChinese white radish
- synonymdaikon radish
- synonymicicle radish
- synonymJapanese radish
- synonymlo bak
- synonymlo pak
- synonymlong white radish
- synonymmooli
- synonymmuli
- synonymmoole
- synonymOriental radish
- neighborKorean radish
- neighborlo bak
- neighborSakurajima radish
- neighbortrue daikon
- neighborfodder radish
- neighborwatermelon radish
Derived
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