daikon

Meanings

Plural: daikon, daikons

Noun

• radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked
• 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.
• 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.
• Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.

Synonyms

beauty heart radish, Chinese green radish, Chinese radish, Chinese white radish, daikon radish, fodder radish, forage radish, icicle radish, Japanese radish, Korean radish, lo bak, lo pak, long white radish, moole, mooli, muli, oil radish, oilseed radish, Oriental radish, oriental radish, radish, radish ripper, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus, Raphanus sativus subsp. Oleiferus, Raphanus sativus var. hortensis Backer, Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus L.H. Bailey, Raphanus sativus var. oleifera Stokes, Raphanus sativus var. oleiformis Pers., red daikon, roseheart radish, Sakurajima radish, shinrimei, shinrimei radish, tillage radish, watermelon radish, white radish