Used in a Sentence

daikon

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for daikon.

Editorial note

And to those that haven't dealt with pickled/fermented daikon before, be aware that the smell when opening the container is enough to clear a room!

Examples19
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of daikon gathered in one view.

noun

Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.

noun

(Japanese cuisine) The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.

noun

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.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for daikon.

noun

Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.

noun

(Japanese cuisine) The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.

noun

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.

Example sentences

1

And to those that haven't dealt with pickled/fermented daikon before, be aware that the smell when opening the container is enough to clear a room!

2

For example, it recommended I plant deep-rooted daikon as a spring cover crop to help decompact the soil.

3

For onigiri, there are vegan varieties even at combini like kombu, daikon, or ume-shiso.

4

Draw an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog..

5

Long before that - once I made some daikon kimchi, she loved it and got hooked.

6

That would be fine if I were growing daikon to eat, but recommending it for a spring cover crop makes no sense.

7

He also has a pickled daikon named after him.

8

Pex is based on the Daikon dynamic invariant.

9

Seems reasonable; I had heard daikon helps with this; looks like it can grow in my climate in the spring; I almost bought seeds.

10

Fujitsu and Daikon have similarly performing heat pumps.

11

I have a few in the freezer full of curry right now, and a couple in the fridge pickling some daikon and carrots for bahn mi.

12

Maybe it helps to point out that the first version of Dall-E (of 'baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog' fame) used the same trick, but they quantized the image patches.

Quote examples

1

Also why daikon radishes are used as a "cover crop" that and for nematode reduction.

2

I find I can eat plants along with my beef, lamb and butter as long as those plants are very low in "carbs": fennel, daikon radish, cauliflower, cabbage.

3

Perhaps this was a cherry picked example on the part of the authors, but the network generating relevant novel images conditioned upon the text prompt “an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog” … made me take a (not entirely permanent) break from on ripping on GPT-3.

4

"That's the worst turnip I've ever tasted!" "Sir, that's a daikon radish." "Well, then, it's not bad then." I think a lot of it has to do with expectation.

Proper noun examples

1

I wonder if someone has already done this for the Daikon, too.

2

Japanese ones where it's thick and long (Daikon) and just let it um rot, after couple of seasons you'd get the length worth of top soil that's good for rice at least!

3

(Tin 232°) Japanese Repairman #9 (from a wonderful series) shows a man restoring one of his own vegetable (Daikon?) graters: he resurfaces the copper with a molten metal, any idea which?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use daikon in a sentence?

And to those that haven't dealt with pickled/fermented daikon before, be aware that the smell when opening the container is enough to clear a room!

What does daikon mean?

Closely-related cultivars such as the enormous turnip-shaped Sakurajima or green-and-red watermelon radish.

What part of speech is daikon?

daikon is commonly used as noun.