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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
radish
noun
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▪ Continue to sow salads like lettuce, radish and spring onion for cropping in late summer.
▪ Faintly he can smell soup, and taste radishes and wine.
▪ I coddle the beets, radishes, and yellow squash, pamper the chives and basil; overindulge the tomatoes.
▪ On the board she placed olives and radishes and several eggs which she had roasted in the ashes.
▪ Serve the Oriental Beef on a bed of lettuce on large platters and garnish with spring onions and radish waterlilies.
▪ The addition of the peppery radishes is a new twist on the classic idea of using baby turnips.
▪ To serve, place squab on individual serving plates and serve greens alongside, garnished with radishes.
▪ When serving greens, garnish with radishes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Radish

Radish \Rad"ish\ (r[a^]d"[i^]sh), n. [F. radis; cf. It. radice, Pr. raditz: all fr. L. radix, -icis, a root, an edible root, especially a radish, akin to E. wort. See Wort, and cf. Eradicate, Race a root, Radix.] (Bot.) The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant ( Raphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.

Radish fly (Zo["o]l.), a small two-winged fly ( Anthomyia raphani) whose larv[ae] burrow in radishes. It resembles the onion fly.

Rat-tailed radish (Bot.), an herb ( Raphanus caudatus) having a long, slender pod, which is sometimes eaten.

Wild radish (Bot.), the jointed charlock.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
radish

late Old English rædic "radish," from Latin radicem (nominative radix) "root, radish," from PIE root *wrad- "twig, root" (cognates: Greek rhiza, Lesbian brisda "root;" Greek hradamnos "branch;" Gothic waurts, Old English wyrt; Welsh gwridd, Old Irish fren "root"). Spelling perhaps influenced by Old French radise, variant of radice, from Vulgar Latin *radicina, from radicem.

Wiktionary
radish

n. 1 A plant of the ''Brassicaceae'' family, ''Raphanus sativus'', having an edible root 2 The pungent root of this plant, usually eaten raw in salads etc

WordNet
radish
  1. n. pungent fleshy edible root

  2. pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants

  3. Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw [syn: Raphanus sativus]

Wikipedia
Radish

The radish ( Raphanus sativus) is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe in pre- Roman times. Radishes are grown and consumed throughout the world, being mostly eaten raw as a crunchy salad vegetable. They have numerous varieties, varying in size, flavor, color, and length of time they take to mature. Radishes owe their sharp flavor to the various chemical compounds produced by the plants, including glucosinolate, myrosinase, and isothiocyanate. They are sometimes grown as companion plants and suffer from few pests and diseases. They germinate quickly and grow rapidly, smaller varieties being ready for consumption within a month, while larger daikon varieties take several months. Another use of radish is as cover or catch crop in winter or as a forage crop. Some radishes are grown for their seeds; daikon, for instance, may be grown for oil production. Others are used for sprouting and both roots and leaves are sometimes served cooked or cold.

Radish (band)

Radish were a self-proclaimed "Sugar Metal" band formed in 1993 by Ben Kweller, John David Kent, and Bryan Blur.

Radish (disambiguation)

Radish usually refers to the common radish, a summer radish with a round red root.

It may also refer to:

  • Daikon, the long-rooted East Asian white radish
  • Other species and varieties of the Raphanus genus
  • Radish, a Texan "sugar metal" band

Usage examples of "radish".

In facial neuralgia scraped Horse radish applied as a poultice, proves usefully beneficial: and for the same purpose some of the fresh scrapings may be profitably held in the hand of the affected side, which hand will become in a short time bloodlessly benumbed, and white.

The fresh root of the Horse radish is a powerful stimulant by reason of its ardent and pungent volatile principle, whether it be taken as a medicament, or be applied externally to any part of the body.

When sliced across with a knife the root of the Horse radish will exude some drops of a sweet juice which may be rubbed with advantage on rheumatic, or palsied limbs.

In pimply acne of the skin, to touch each papula with some of the Compound Spirit of Horse Radish now and again will soon effect a general cure of the ailment.

The food of seventeenth-century Muscovy had been plain and simple - the entire repertory consisting of fish, boiled meats and domestic fowl, pancakes, bread and pies, garlic, onion, cucumbers and radishes, cabbages and beetroot.

The vegetables segregated themselves by variety: All the carrots grouped together, and the onions, scallions, beets, sweet potatoes, radishes, turnips, and garlics.

April 25, when the likelihood of frost had diminished, he had to plant his sugar beets the way a housewife plants radishes: he sowed the seed heavily along the whole length of his rows, using about twenty-four times as many seeds as he really needed.

Before they got into it Shasta dismounted and entered it on foot to buy a loaf and some onions and radishes.

I was presently joined by Shelldrake and Mallory, and between us we finished the onions and radishes, stuck the peas, and cleaned the alleys.

His family lived upstairs, and outside in the gritty hostile soil of his back yard, Simcha planted corn and radishes, peas, carrots and cucumbers.

It had a volume of perhaps thirty cubic centimeters, the size of an average radish, corresponding to a few hundred million neurons and some hundred billion bits-which controlled, among other things, the munching of lettuce, the twitchings of noses, and the sexual dalliances of grownup rabbits.

She bent and pulled a couple of radishes, rubbed the earth off them, and crunched into them.

With three pieces of the gold he bought good seed from the south, full grains of wheat and of rice and of corn, and for very recklessness of riches he bought seeds the like of which he had never planted before, celery and lotus for his pond and great red radishes that are stewed with pork for a feast dish and small red fragrant beans.

She picked up her pace, adding a head of lettuce and a bag of radishes to her cart.

They had been ages working out how you put recognisable hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades on each as a motif, but between radishes and black olives as fiddly little decorations they had come up with something acceptable.