English Dictionary

daikon

/ˈdaɪkɒn/

noun

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of 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.

I bought a daikon at the grocery store.

意味（1）

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of 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.

意味（2）

(Japanese cuisine) The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.

意味（3）

Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.