Definitions for daikons

daikons dai·kon

Spelling: [dahy-kuh n, -kon]
IPA: /ˈdaɪ kən, -kɒn/

Daikons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in daikons (adiknos).

Definitions for daikons

noun

  1. a large, elongated, white winter radish, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus, used especially in Asian cuisine and sometimes pickled.

Origin of daikons

1890-95; Japanese Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese dà big + gēn root

Examples for daikons

This daikon is very cheap, and is a chief part of the diet of that small portion of the population that cannot afford rice.

There is daikon production up to the value of about a million yen.

Ah, its a miserable girl I am—and Ive cooked his daikon and mended his hakama a hundred times.

O'Iwa needs but little; a stalk of daikon (radish) and a handful of wheat (mugi).

The island is celebrated for thermal springs, oranges and daikon (radishes), which sometimes grow to a weight of 70 ℔.

In addition to the roots sent into Tokyo, there is a large export trade in daikon salted in casks.

One of the islands we visited bore the name of the giant radish, daikon, which is itself a corruption of the word for octopus.

The daikon is soused in brine and rice bran, kept weighted down under heavy stones, and allowed "to ripen" for some weeks.

Also I am afraid that you would not like the odours of fish below stairs, of daikon, and of other things all mixed up together.

He found near by a shop for the sale of everything, from tobacco to daikon (radish), both odoriferous, yet lacking perfume.

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