Definitions for daikon

daikon dai·kon

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

Daikon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in daikon (adikno).

Definitions for daikon

noun

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

Origin of daikon

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

Examples for daikon

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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