Other forms: radishes
A radish is a small peppery red root eaten raw. A bunch of radishes, slice the radishes, radish and butter.
The heat comes from the same family of compounds as mustard and horseradish, and it is stronger in a radish grown slowly or in dry soil. It is among the fastest vegetables to grow, ready in a month, which makes it the standard crop for children.
1nounradishA small peppery red root eaten raw.
“She pulled a bunch of radishes from the garden and ate one raw with salt.”
radish is a vegetable.
Old English raedic comes from Latin radix, a root. Radical and radish are the same word at the root.
Proto-Indo-European
*wréh₂ds
Italian
radice
Middle French
radice
Anglo-Norman
radich
Latin
radix — root of a plant; radish
Proto-West Germanic
*rādik
Old English
rǣdiċ
Middle English
radiche
English, today
radish
From Middle English radiche, from Old English rǣdiċ, from Proto-West Germanic rādik, borrowed from Latin radix (“root of a plant; radish”); later influenced by Anglo-Norman radich and Middle French radice, borrowed from Italian radice, from the same Latin source. a doublet of radix.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA