radish
pronunciation
How to pronounce radish in British English:
UK [ˈrædɪʃ]
How to pronounce radish in American English:
US [ˈrædɪʃ]
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- Noun:
- pungent fleshy edible root
- pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants
- Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw
Word Origin
- radish
- radish: see radical
- radish (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Eg. she carved a flower out of a radish .
- 2. Some old men can spend half of a day in tea house with just a pot of tea and two pieces oftaro cake or radish cake .
- 3. ' Three treasures to welcome guests ' : with bran , pickled radish and shredded dried tofu
- 4. The south korean government has released emergency supplies of cabbage , pork , mackerel , radish and other staples as part of president lee myung-bak 's war on inflation .
- 5. Seedlings of parsnip , carrot , beetroot and radish must fight off slugs , and weeds also need checking , hoeing them as they grow , to leave the pests nowhere to hide .