radish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun pungent fleshy edible root
  2. noun radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked
    Japanese radish; Raphanus sativus longipinnatus; daikon.
  3. noun pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants
  4. noun Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw
    Raphanus sativus.
  5. noun a cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root
    radish plant.

WordNet

Rad"ish noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The pungent fleshy root of a well-known cruciferous plant (Paphanus sativus); also, the whole plant.

Webster 1913