radish
- noun
- A2
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A small round or long root that people eat raw in salads; it has red or white skin and a hot, sharp taste.
I sliced a few radishes into the salad for some colour.
These radishes are so hot they make my tongue tingle.
We grow radishes in spring because they are ready quickly.
She ate fresh bread with butter, salt and thin radish slices.
Common collocations: a bunch of radishes · sliced radish · grow radishes · radish salad · crisp radish
Part of: Vegetables, The garden
Forms
- plural
- radishes