daikon

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪkɒn/

daikon (plural daikons or daikon)

1. 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.
   1. (Japanese cuisine) The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.
      • 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 188:

        Jiko was washing these big white daikons, and I was cutting them up and salting them and putting them into plastic freezer bags.

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

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.

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

• daikon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Raphanus sativus at USDA Plants database
• Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus at Plants of the World Online
• Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "mooli, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2002.

• nodiak

From Japanese 大根 (daikon).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑi̯kon/, [ˈdɑ̝i̯ko̞n]
• Rhymes: -ɑikon
• Syllabification^(key): dai‧kon

daikon

1. Synonym of valkoretikka (“daikon”).

daikon

1. Rōmaji transcription of だいこん

daikon m (plural daikons)

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