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Definitions: Radish |
RadishNoun1. Pungent fleshy edible root. 2. Pungent edible root of any of various cultivated radish plants. 3. Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its edible pungent root usually eaten raw. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "radish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Etymology: Radish \Rad"ish\, noun. [French expression radis; compare to Italian expression radice, Pr. raditz: all from Latin radix, -icis, root, an edible root, especially radish, akin to English wort. See Wort, and compare to Eradicate, Race root, Radix.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a bed of radishes growing, is an omen of good luck. Your friends will be unusually kind, and your business will prosper. If you eat them, you will suffer slightly through the thoughtlessness of some one near to you. To see radishes, or plant them, denotes that your anticipations will be happily realized. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonym: RadishSynonym: Raphanus sativus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Radish |
| English words defined with "radish": Beet radish ♦ daikon ♦ genus raphanus ♦ horse radish ♦ Japanese radish ♦ Radish fly, radish plant, Raphanus, Raphanus sativus longipinnatus, Rat-tailed radish ♦ Water radish, Wild radish. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "radish": Beetrave ♦ Radix. (references) |
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Economic History | Guatemala | The largest seed importer is the vegetable sector, which includes sweet corn, beets, cauliflower, onion, pepper, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, radish, cucumber, lettuce, squash, tomato, and others. (references) |
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| "Radish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Radish" is used about 176 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 176 | 23,410 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "radish" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Radish | Last name | 170 | 49,867 |
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Expressions using "radish": Beet radish ♦ black radish ♦ horse radish ♦ japanese radish ♦ large radish ♦ radish fly ♦ radish plant ♦ red radish ♦ water radish ♦ wild radish. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "radish": radish-crimson, radish-size, radish-sized. | |
Ending with "radish": horse-radish. | |
Containing "radish": Horse-radish tree. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
radish | 215 |
radish seed | 115 |
radish recipe | 56 |
agriculture radish | 30 |
horse radish | 23 |
growing radish | 23 |
radish weeping | 18 |
radish rose | 17 |
radish seller | 13 |
green radish | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "radish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrepkë. (various references) | |
Arabic | فجلة, فجل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | репичка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 萝卜, 蘿"" , 蘿卜 , 蘿 . (various references) | |
Czech | ředkvièka, ředkev. (various references) | |
Danish | radise. (various references) | |
Dutch | rammenas (black radish, frangula), radijs, radýs (black radish), knopherik (black radish, jointed charlock, runch, wild radish). (various references) | |
Esperanto | rafano (black radish), rafaneto. (various references) | |
Faeroese | radisa. (various references) | |
Farsi | تربچه(گ.ش.), برگ یاعلف تربچه . (various references) | |
Finnish | retiisi. (various references) | |
French | radis. (various references) | |
Frisian | radys. (various references) | |
German | Rettich (black radish), Radieschen. (various references) | |
Greek | ραπάνι, ραπανάκι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פו'ל", צ ו ית. (various references) | |
Hungarian | retek. (various references) | |
Icelandic | radísa, hreðka (black radish). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lobak (turnip). (various references) | |
Irish | raidis. (various references) | |
Italian | ravanello (black radish), rafano (horseradish, horse-radish, horseradish root). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ラテン語 (labyrinth, Latin, Latvia, lavatory, lover, radical, radical realism, radon, rapid fire, ravioli, rough, rubber, rubber cement, rubber racket, rubber silk, rubber sole, rubber tile). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラディッシュ . (various references) | |
Korean | 무 (Biting, Non, Non-, snapping). (various references) | |
Manx | rahgyl. (various references) | |
Mohawk | yotsihkwatsk ra. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adishray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rábano (horse-radish, horseradish root). (various references) | |
Romanian | ridiche. (various references) | |
Russian | редиска. (various references) | |
Scottish | rotacal (horse radish). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rotkvica. (various references) | |
Spanish | rábano (black radish), rabano. (various references) | |
Swedish | rädisa. (various references) | |
Turkish | turp (red radish). (various references) | |
Turkmen | rediska (r), turp. (various references) | |
Ukranian | редиска. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhuddygl. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | radix, raphanum, RAPHANUS SATIVUS, rapulum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "radish": radishes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "radish": horseradish. (additional references) | |
Words containing "radish": horseradishes. (additional references) | |
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"Radish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adish, ardnish, Ardoch, braddish, bradish, Qadesh, Rabigh, rabish, radah, raddish, Radeschi, Radiasa, Radic, radih, radiis, radis, Radisa, radjick, radus, rafish, raidh, raith, ramish, rapish, rawish, redish, renish, ritish, Roddis, rudis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "radish" (pronounced ra"dish) |
| 4 | -a" d i sh | faddish. |
| 3 | -d i sh | brandish, horseradish, outlandish, prudish, reddish, Standish. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: shaird. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-h-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: dashi, hairs, hards, raids, shard. | |
-2 letters: aids, airs, arid, dahs, dais, dash, dish, hair, hard, rads, raid, rash, rias, rids, sadi, said, sard, sari, shad, shri. | |
-3 letters: ads, aid, air, ais, ars, ash, dah, dis, had, has, hid, his, ids, rad, rah, ras, ria, rid, sad, sha, sir, sri. | |
-4 letters: ad, ah, ai, ar, as, ha, hi, id, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-h-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: airshed, darkish, dashier, dirhams, dishrag, hairdos, hardies, midrash, shadier, shairds. | |
+2 letters: airheads, airsheds, brandish, broadish, diehards, digraphs, dishrags, dishware, draffish, dwarfish, hagrides, hardiest, hardship, hayrides, misheard, rachides, radishes, raphides, ravished, rawhides, semihard, shipyard, wardship. | |
+3 letters: antherids, aphorised, arachnids, archaised, bedchairs, birdbaths, birthdays, cashiered, characids, chrysalid, diagraphs, diarchies, diarrheas, dihedrals, discharge, dishwares, dishwater, dragonish, dyarchies, dysphoria, firsthand, garnished, hairbands, halliards, handgrips, handrails, hangbirds, hardiness, hardships, hardwires, harridans, headfirst, highroads, hoardings, hydracids, hyracoids, midrashic, midrashim, midrashot, pilchards, railheads, rhachides, rhapsodic, rhodamins, scraiched, scraighed, shadowier, shikarred, shipboard, shipyards, shivareed, tarnished, therapsid, tracheids, varnished, wardships, withdraws. | |
+4 letters: admonisher, airbrushed, anhydrides, anhydrites, apartheids, arachnoids, archfiends, authorised, biohazards, birthdates, blandisher, brandished, brandishes, chancroids, charladies, chipboards, chromatids, chrysalids, crawfished, dealership, diaphorase, diaphragms, diarrhoeas, dichondras, dichromats, discharged, dischargee, discharger, discharges, disenthral, disharmony, dishearten, dishwasher, dishwaters, dispatcher, distraught, dithyrambs, driveshaft, drosophila, dwarfishly, dysarthria, dysphorias, endarchies, enravished, farsighted, franchised, garnisheed, handiworks, handprints, handspring, handwrites, harborside, hardenings, hardfisted, hardihoods, hardiments, harmonised, headliners, headspring, heraldries, hesperidia, hindbrains, hindrances, holidayers, hybridomas, hydrations, hydraulics, hydrazides, hydrazines, icosahedra, ideographs, leadership, midrashoth, mischarged, misphrased, orchardist, philanders, printheads, rachitides, radicchios, rainwashed, readership, rhapsodies, rhapsodist, rhapsodize, rhodamines, rightwards, saccharide, shipboards, spheroidal, springhead, straighted, switchyard, therapsids, threadfins, threadiest, trailheads, trihedrals, unravished, wardenship. | |
+5 letters: achondrites, admonishers, anthropoids, aphrodisiac, archdiocese, archduchies, arthritides, arthrodesis, blandishers, brachiopods, brainwashed, brandishing, breadthwise, bridgeheads, cantharides, chandeliers, chandleries, chrysalides, clavichords, comradeship, dealerships, diachronies, diaphorases, diaphoreses, diaphoresis, diarthroses, diarthrosis, diastrophic, diathermies, dichromates, diphtherias, dischargees, dischargers, discharging, discography, disenthrall, disenthrals, disheartens, dishwashers, dispatchers, draughtiest, driveshafts, drosophilae, drosophilas, dysarthrias, dysrhythmia, figureheads, hairdresser, handicrafts, handsprings, hardinesses, harpsichord, headsprings, headwaiters, highlanders, hinterlands, horseradish, husbandries, hydrostatic, hypermedias, icosahedral, icosahedron, leaderships, maidenhairs, merchandise, mithridates, nearsighted, nudibranchs, orchardists, pathfinders, radiographs, radiophones, radiophotos, readerships, refashioned, rhabdovirus, rhapsodical, rhapsodists, rhapsodized, rhapsodizes, saccharides, scrimshawed, shadberries, shorthaired, spearfished, springheads, stewardship, switchboard, switchyards, threadiness, timberheads, transhipped, ungarnished, untarnished, unvarnished, wardenships, whitebeards, whiteboards, withdrawals. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 64 69 73 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.. .. ... .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100100 01101001 01110011 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a d i s h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0064 0069 0073 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526770758574 |
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