daikon (English, noun)
expansion: daikon (plural daikons or daikon)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
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glosses: 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.
tags: Japanese
glosses: Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.
Forms:
form: daikons
tags: plural
form: daikon
tags: plural