radish

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small crisp root vegetable with a sharp taste, often red outside and white inside

   She sliced a radish thinly and added it to the salad.

2. 2
   noun

   the cruciferous plant cultivated for this edible root

   Each radish produced leaves above ground and a swollen root below it.

From Middle English radiche and Old English raedic, ultimately borrowed from Latin radix, radicis, 'root.' French forms later influenced the English spelling. The vegetable name thus comes directly from the ordinary Latin word for a plant root.

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