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A radish is a small, hard root you eat, usually raw. The salad kind is often round and red outside, white and crisp inside, and tastes sharp and peppery, not sweet. There are longer white ones too. People slice them onto salads or eat them with a little salt. Though actually, English also uses radish for bigger roots in the same family, including the large white one you stew or pickle, so the tidy "small red salad vegetable" picture is only the most famous kind, not the whole story. It is an everyday food word, not a fancy one.
櫻桃蘿蔔、小蘿蔔（台灣的「紅蘿蔔」是 carrot，不是這個；白蘿蔔是較大、常燉煮的那種）
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
radishnoun/ˈɹad.ɪʃ/
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A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.
- Many times they ſow divers ſeeds in a Bed together, as Radiſhes and Carrots, that by ſuch time as the Carrots come up, the Radiſhes may be gone. Upon beds newly ſet with Licorice they ſow Onions or Radiſh, or Lettice if their Licorice plants or ground be but weak, ſo as not quickly to cauſe a ſhadow with their leaves.
- The newly-introduced radish, which has attracted the attention of horticulturists so much of late, is certainly a novelty, inasmuch as the edible portion of the plant is the seed-vessel, and not the root. The common radish, in its numerous varieties, in such an exceedingly popular salad-plant, that we are scarcely prepared to look to this genus for new economic products or floral novelties. When we consider the many varieties of radish known to this country, from the long and tapering red-root to the white turnip-radish, we might, in some measure, be prepared for a wider development of nature's laws in tropical countries.
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The root of this plant used as food. Some varieties are pungent and usually eaten raw in salads, etc., while others have a milder taste and are cooked.
- Fat people ſhould not eat freely of oily, nouriſhing diet. They ought frequently to eat radiſh, garlic, ſpices, or ſuch things as are heating, and promote perſpiration and urine.
- The flavors of radicchio and radish are delicious with only a touch of balsamic vinegar for a dressing.
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Some other root plant of genus Raphanus or family Brassicaceae.
- rat-tail radish (Raphanus caudatus); wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum)
- The Wild Radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), is Edward's trophy, brought from a piece of waste ground near Hawkhurst, in Kent. The petals are white or pale lilac, veined distinctly with a deeper shade. The Sea Radish (R. maritimus,[…]), is primrose-coloured, also veined. Fanny brought it from the beautiful cliffs near Lizard Point.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。