radish
Meanings
Plural: radishes
Noun
- pungent fleshy edible root
- radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked
- pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants
- Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw
- a cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root
- A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.
- The root of this plant used as food. Some varieties are pungent and usually eaten raw in salads, etc., while others have a milder taste and are cooked.
- Some other root plant of genus Raphanus or family Brassicaceae.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*wréh₂ds
From Middle English radiche, from Old English rǣdiċ, from Proto-West Germanic *rādik, borrowed from Latin rādīcem (“root of a plant; radish”); later influenced by Anglo-Norman radich and Middle French radice, borrowed from Italian radice, from the same Latin source. Doublet of radix.
Synonyms
daikon, Japanese radish, radish plant, Raphanus sativus, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus
Scrabble Score: 10
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