different between daikon vs radish

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (daikon, “big root”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?k?n/

Noun

daikon (plural daikons or daikon)

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.
   1. (Japanese cuisine) The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.
2. Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.

Usage notes

Daikon is the most common name in all forms of English, but historical ties to South Asia permit mooli as a general synonym in British English. Other synonyms usually vary by region, so that daikon is sometimes taken to refer specifically to the usual Japanese form; similarly, the term radish may be used, with the regional variety implied by context. In addition, the plant is most often grown in North America for animal fodder or other uses rather than human consumption, producing a third set of synonyms that are almost never encountered in culinary contexts.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

• Korean radish
• lo bak
• Sakurajima radish
• true daikon, fodder radish
• watermelon radish

Translations

Further reading

• daikon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Natural Resources Conservation Service. PLANTS Database. "Plant Fact Sheet: Oilseed Radish, Raphanus sativus L.". United States Dep't of Agriculture, 2012. Accessed 22 June 2014.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "mooli, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2002.

Finnish

Noun

daikon

1. Synonym of valkoretikka (“daikon”).

Declension

Japanese

Romanization

daikon

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Portuguese

Noun

daikon m (plural daikons)

1. (botany) daikon (a large East Asian radish cultivar)

English

Etymology

From Middle English radishe, redich, radiche, raddik, radike, redic, from Old English redic, rædic, from Vulgar Latin r?d?ce, the ablative singular of r?d?x (“root of a plant; radish”); later influenced by Anglo-Norman radich, radice, and Middle French radice (modern French radis), also from Latin. Cognate with Danish reddike, ræddike, Italian radice, Middle Dutch radic, Old High German ratih, retih (Middle High German retich, modern German Rettich, Rettig), Old Saxon redik (Middle Low German r?dik, reddik, r?tik, and other forms), Old Swedish rädikia, rätikia, and other forms (modern Swedish rättika), Portuguese radiz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ad??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æd??/
• Rhymes: -æd??
• Hyphenation: ra?dish

Noun

radish (plural radishes)

1. A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.
   • 1659 (indicated as 1660), Robert Sharrock, “Of Propagation by Seed”, in The History of the Propagation & Improvement of Vegetables by the Concurrence of Art and Nature: [...], Oxford: Printed by A. Lichfield, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, ?OCLC, pages 14–15:

     Many times they ?ow divers ?eeds in a Bed together, as Radi?hes and Carrots, that by ?uch time as the Carrots come up, the Radi?hes may be gone. Upon beds newly ?et with Licorice they ?ow Onions or Radi?h, or Lettice if their Licorice plants or ground be but weak, ?o as not quickly to cau?e a ?hadow with their leaves.
2. 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.
3. With a distinguishing word: some other plant of the Raphanus genus or Brassicaceae family.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Maori: r?tihi

See also

• daikon
• mooli

Further reading

• radish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dahirs, Rashid

Middle English

Noun

radish

1. Alternative form of radiche