Meaning

noun pungent fleshy edible root

noun radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked

noun pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants

originPIE word *wréh₂ds From Middle English radiche, from Old English rǣdiċ, from Proto-West Germanic *rādik, borrowed from Latin rādīcem (“root of a plant; radish”); later influenced by Anglo-Norman radich and Middle French radice, borrowed from Italian radice, from the same Latin source. Doublet of radix.

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