daikon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of daikon
1890–95; < Japanese < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese dà big + gēn root
Vocabulary lists containing daikon
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During the competition, she won a cold food challenge when she made a dish of chilled chicken with licorice-forward soba, cucumber and daikon.
From Salon ● May 30, 2025
During the day, I was prepping and tasting healthy stuff — green beans, spinach, buchu, daikon, snow peas, garlic, galangal.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
If the book’s vegetables — celery to seaweed, daikon to zucchini — sound like McKinnon’s close acquaintances, it’s no accident.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
I’m here to vouch for the character of coriander aioli slathered on toasted house-baked bread to which sous vide bacon, sliced foie gras and pickled daikon are added.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022
The crew Shin joined specialized in digging up daikon.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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