daikon
IPA: dˈeɪkɑn
noun
- 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.
- (Japanese cuisine) The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.
- Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.
Examples of "daikon" in Sentences
- Daikon is very low in food energy.
- It is made of rice flour and white daikon.
- All the Google hits are pulling up daikon.
- Additionally, daikon is very good for digestion.
- It might be related to a daikon, it's not daikon.
- Another one just got pounded to death with a daikon.
- Bettarazuke. is a kind of pickled daikon popular in Tokyo.
- One of the famous products of Nerima is the Nerima daikon radish.
- Daikon island is also a small volcano called Daikon island volcano.
- Are radish and daikon the same plants, or is one of them taxed incorrectly