Etymology

daikon

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Today it means: An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper. Full definition →

Japanese 大根
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from大根“big root”
  2. English todaydaikon

From Japanese 大根 (daikon, “big root”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.