the pungent fleshy dark red root of a plant of the mustard family, eaten raw as a salad vegetable
a plant of the mustard family cultivated for its pungent fleshy typically dark red edible root: Raphanus sativus
the root of this plant, eaten raw as a salad vegetable
[Middle English, alteration of Old English rædic, from Latin radic-, radix root, radish]