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daikons

daikons is the plural of daikon.

Meaning of daikon

Noun

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) The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.
      • Jiko was washing these big white daikons, and I was cutting them up and salting them and putting them into plastic freezer bags.2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 188
  2. Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.

Phrases with daikons

Questions about daikons

What is daikons the plural of?
Daikons is the plural of daikon.

Words near daikons in the dictionary

  1. daikers
  2. Daikokuten
  3. daikon
  4. daikon radish
  5. daikon radishes
  6. daikons
  7. daikyu
  8. Dail
  9. Dailam
  10. Dailamite
  11. Dailamites

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