: the pungent usually crisp root of a widely cultivated Eurasian plant (Raphanus raphanistrum sativus) of the mustard family usually eaten raw
also
: a plant that produces radishes
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These include beets, carrot, English pea, lettuce, potato, radish, pepper, cucumber, squash, eggplant, and okra.
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
The lawn outside has lettuce, spinach, beets, radishes, broccoli, summer squash sprouting, all ready to be planted in a garden.
—Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
Participants toss the ingredients — shredded vegetables like carrots, daikon radish, yams, cucumber and pickled ginger, along with raw fish — with chopsticks as high as possible while expressing good wishes for the new year.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
One solution for this is to grow daikon radishes or other plants with long tap roots.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2025
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Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
The lawn outside has lettuce, spinach, beets, radishes, broccoli, summer squash sprouting, all ready to be planted in a garden.
—Sarah Kyrcz, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
Participants toss the ingredients — shredded vegetables like carrots, daikon radish, yams, cucumber and pickled ginger, along with raw fish — with chopsticks as high as possible while expressing good wishes for the new year.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 June 2025
One solution for this is to grow daikon radishes or other plants with long tap roots.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for radish
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“Radish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radish. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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radish
noun
rad·ish
ˈrad-ish 
ˈred-
: the crisp edible root of a plant related to the mustards that is usually eaten raw as a vegetable
also
: a plant that produces radishes
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