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radish

radish

14 1.0
A small round root vegetable with a sharp, spicy taste often eaten raw
  • noun
  • /ˈrædɪʃ/
translation icon : rábano
  • I added sliced radish to my salad for extra crunch.
  • radish seeds

We've got more miner's lettuce, more carrots, more radishes, and tons.

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Examples

  • But either way, we still have plenty of radishes down this row.

  • Sometimes you can cut radishes and put salt, cream.

  • I ate the rose radish.

  • "Do you have fresh radish?" she asked my mother, suddenly full of excited enthusiasm.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Yeah, radish flowers are edible and very beautiful.

  • I also bought this pickled radish, which I thought would go maybe great with this and our cheese ham meat boys are done.

  • Classrooms have long produced the odd pea or radish as part of instruction in the life sciences.

    Academic text (2005)
  • That's a radish.

  • This variation of the breakfast Mcmuffin is made with sweet cottage cheese, salt, pepper, red radish and arugula in Poland.

  • The chef garnished the dish with thin radish slices for a pop of color.

Synonyms

daikon
vsradish
2 7.3

A large white radish with a long crunchy root eaten raw or cooked

is the smaller crisp pungent root often used raw in salads
Raphanus sativus
vsradish
  • Specialized
6.7

A small root vegetable with a sharp taste that is often eaten raw

is the common small crunchy salad vegetable rather than the formal species term
Japanese radish
vsradish
3.0

A large long white root vegetable from Japan often eaten raw or cooked

is the smaller crunchy salad root rather than a large regional variety
Raphanus sativus longipinnatus
vsradish
  • Specialized
9.9

A long white radish from East Asia that people eat raw or cooked

is the general small crunchy salad root rather than a specific long variety

Compounds

A large long white root vegetable from Japan often eaten raw or cooked

A vegetable with a spicy, crunchy root that people eat

6.1

A plant like a radish with yellow or pale purple flowers and long seed pods

How Pungent

wasabi
5 4.9
horseradish
16 3.9
radish
14 1.0
daikon
2 7.3

Surface Forms

radish singular
radishes plural

Etymology

Radish comes from the Latin word radix 'root'. That's why a radish is a small, crunchy root vegetable you pull from the ground and eat.